Houston's Estate

Opinion by

Me. Justice Simpson,

Upon the audit of the executor’s account in the Estate of William B. Houston, deceased, Frances Yactor and Sarah Dempster, who had been household employees in the home of testator, each presented a claim against the estate, and each attempted to prove her claim almost entirely by the testimony of the other. The auditing judge reported in favor of disallowing both claims, the court in banc dismissed the exceptions of the claimants, and entered decrees of disallowance, from which the present appeals have been taken.

For a number of years testator’s sister, Lizzie,…