Irvine Estate

Opinion by

Me. Justice Jones,

This is an appeal from a decree of the Orphans’ Court of Washington County awarding to Agnes Tarr and Edward E. Tarr (husband and wife) the sum of $3,213.82 from the estate of Agnes Irvine, deceased, for room, board and laundry supplied the decedent in her lifetime by the Tarrs which she accepted. The award was limited to the period of time permitted a claimant by the statute of limitations. The appellant is Alice Lipps, a niece of the decedent and her sole heir and next of kin.

*112The appellant contends that the proofs adduced by the claimants were neither the…