Bechdel's Estate

Per Curiam,

This appeal is from an order affirming" the report of an auditor rejecting appellant’s claim for services as housekeeper and nurse rendered to testator during the six-year period immediately prior to the filing of the executors’ account. The claim was rejected for want of proof that she had not been paid periodically in the customary way.

Appellant and her husband lived with testator, a farmer; her husband did the farm work and received periodic payments, and she did all of the housework and looked after the testator during his illness.

Claims such as this, which could have been…