Newbert v. McCarthy

In this action the plaintiff sued to recover a judgment against the estate of her deceased sister in the sum of $750 as compensation for personal services alleged to have been rendered by the plaintiff to the deceased during her lifetime. The defendants, the executors of the estate of the deceased sister, had judgment in the court below. In support of plaintiff’s appeal from that judgment it is contended that inasmuch as the rendition of the services in suit was an admitted fact in the case the judgment should have gone for the plaintiff because of the general rule that a person receiving the…