Keeley v. Riley

If the claim of James Keeley and Katherine Keeley against tbe estate of James L. Hawley were a claim seeking compensation in money for services rendered the testator in his lifetime, based upon either express or implied contract, I would, in accordance with the views expressed by me in the additional memorandum filed in the case of Garden et al. v. T. S. Riley et al., Executors, 116 W. Va. 723, 183 S. E. 46, be of the opinion that the commissioner of accounts had jurisdiction of the claim. That, however, is not the nature of their claim. They say that on or about the.day of April, 1928, they…