In re the Accounting of Kennedy

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The judicial settlement of the administrator’s account in this case requires the determination of a claim by his wife, Mary K. Kennedy, for personal service allegedly rendered to the deceased during the last six years of the lifetime of the latter. Concededly, there was no regular rate of payment ever agreed to between the claimant and said deceased. Therefore, we are concerned with arriving at a conclusion as to the compensable, reasonable value, if any, of said services. As such *71reasonable value, the amount claimed is at the rate of $35 a week for 312 weeks, amounting to $10,920.

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