Nicholson v. Dent, Robinson & Ward

This appeal is from a decree of the chancery court allowing and directing the payment of a contested claim in the sum of $200 against the estate of Miss Inez 0. Lum, deceased, which had been duly probated, registered and allowed for professional services rendered to the said Miss Lum during her lifetime by the law firm of Dent, Robinson & Ward, appellee.

Upon the hearing the appellee introduced as its only competent evidence to establish the claim the testimony of Julius Fohs, a former employee of the deceased, and Miss Bessie Davis, stenographer of the said law firm. Fohs testified, in…