Reasner's Estate (Tolbert's Appeal)

Opinion by

Keller, J.,

This was a claim by decedent’s daughter-in-law against his estate for ‘board, lodging, nursing and similar services’ rendered over a period of seventy-two weeks at $5 a week. The services were rendered while decedent was living with his son and the latter’s wife, the claimant, in the son’s home. The auditor disallowed the claim because of the relationship between decedent and claimant’s husband. The court sustained exceptions to the auditor’s report and allowed the claim because it felt obliged to do so under our decision in Bergstresser’s Est., 107 Pa. Superior Ct. 436,…