O'Bold's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 291, Jan. T., 1907, by C. J. Dellone, Executor, from decree of O. O. Adams Co., dismissing exceptions to • auditor’s report in estate of Vincent O’Bold, deceased. Exceptions to report of J. L. Kendlehart, Esq.,- auditor. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. Errors assigned were in dismissing exceptions to auditor’s report and in allowing Dr. B. N. Meisenhelder the sum of $1,685.50 and in allowing the auditor a fee of .$500.
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam,
The first question undér the assignments of error is-the rea*146sonableness of the claim of the physician for services rendered to the decedent. The claim was allowed by the auditor and the allowance was confirmed by the court. Both were in better position to judge of the validity of the claim than we are. But the physician after several demands upon him to furnish his account for services to the decedent, rendered a bill in a lump sum of $1,250. Three years later at the audit he presented an itemized claim for $1,685.50. So serious a discrepancy raised at once a presumption that the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- In re Estate of FultonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1896
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