Candor's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Union county. Robert Candor, as the administrator of his father, Josias Candor’s estate, presented his account to the Orphans’ Court, in which he prayed to be allowed a credit of $1550 for work, labour and services rendered to his father in his lifetime, while he was living with him as a member of his family and after he arrived at full age.
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APPEAL from the decree of the Orphans’ Court of Union county. Robert Candor, as the administrator of his father, Josias Candor’s estate, presented his account to the Orphans’ Court, in which he prayed to be allowed a credit of $1550 for work, labour and services rendered to his father in his lifetime, while he was living with him as a member of his family and after he arrived at full age. This was objected to by the other heirs, and the court referred the subject to an auditor, who on this subject made the following report: The exception (on credit side) is, that “ the credit for $1550, for…
1Opinion of the Court
*515The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Rogers, J.
Several exceptions have been filed to the decree of the Orphans’ Court. But one, however, requires particular remark, namely, the credit of $1550, .for work done on the farm in the lifetime of the intestate. In Walker’s Estatet we took occasion to express the reluctance with which we listen to claims for wages by a son against the estate of a decéased parent, and subsequent experience has not changed or modified the opinion then entertained. It is pregnant-with danger, as we verily believe, as well to the rights of creditors as to the other…
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