Baker v. Solari

Appeals from two judgments are here upon a consolidated record. Plaintiffs are sisters. They filed claims against the estate of Aurora Brignardello for the reasonable value of services allegedly rendered to her during the two years before her death. The executor of her will rejected both claims, and plaintiffs brought these actions. After trial to the court sitting without a jury, judgment was rendered in favor of each plaintiff for $2,000. Defendant executor appeals.

Plaintiffs lived next door to decedent. The latter was 84 years old at the time of her death. She had been ill for some time…