Claim of Fordham v. Estate of Wever

Boire, S.

This is a proceeding to determine the merits of the claim of the above-named claimant, as part of the judicial settlement of the account of the executors of the late John M. Wever.

The decedent was a banker, a man of some wealth. The claimant filed a claim of $1,000 against this estate, for her alleged services in nursing and caring for Howell E. Fordham, the uncle of claimant’s husband. It is asserted by the claimant that the decedent obligated himself, by his original promise, to pay for the care and nursing of said Howell E. Fordham (now deceased), the latter having been a former…