Lebo Estate

403 Pa. 123 (1961)

Lebo Estate.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Argued January 9, 1961.

March 28, 1961.

Before JONES, C.J., BELL, MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, BOK and EAGEN, JJ.

Howell C. Mette, with him Rhoads, Sinon & Reader, for appellant.

Henry E. Harner, for appellee.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE MUSMANNO, March 28, 1961:

Ira T. Lebo died testate on November 28, 1957. On May 26, 1958, Susan E.N. Peffley, a cousin of Lebo's mother, filed a claim against the estate for $6500 in payment of services assertedly rendered to Lebo over a period of six years. The executor disallowed the claim and Mrs. Peffley…