Pearce v. Smith

Where an administrator claims compensation for extraordinary services, the burden is upon him to show the nature, character, extent, and value of such services. Clements v. Fletcher, 161 Ga. 21 (3 b), 46 (129 S. E. 846). In the instant case, in which a verdict was rendered in favor of an administratrix by a jury in the superior court on appeal from the court of ordinary, certain of thg *414extraordinary services enumerated by the administratrix in her testimony, such as her efforts in resisting a caveat to her appointment as permanent administratrix (Fields v. Case, 137 Ga. 147 (2), 72 S. E.…