Elwood's Estate

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Schaffer,

This is a claim for personal services rendered to a dead man, asserted against his estate, and alleged to be founded on an express contract between the claimant and the deceased. The auditing judge at first refused to award anything on the ground that no contract had been established. On rehearing, in the light of further testimony, he found that a contract had been entered into, but disallowed the claim for the reason that it was barred by the statute of limitations. The orphans’ court in banc, in which he sat, decided that there was a contract and that the…