Barry v. Brittain

Griffin Smith, Chief Justice.

Sarah Devlin Brittain, an octogenarian whose mental capacity to execute a will is not questioned, died in June, 1953, leaving an estate estimated to be worth a little more than $42,000. Her husband, E. P. Brittain, to whom she had been married for almost a quarter of a century, was provided for to the extent of from $11,000 to $16,000. Brittain filed with the executor — Clinton it. Barry — a claim, for $5,-145.94 for reimbursement of payments personally made covering doctor bills, medicines, nurses, hospitalization and items of a similar nature beginning with…