Tolsma v. Tolsma's Estate

Henry Tolsma, deceased, was a bachelor and a farmer. His sister Mina Tolsma presented a claim against his estate. Her claim is that for 18 years, 6 months, and 18 days she kept his house, doing all the housework, making butter, raising chickens, making garden, attended to the personal wants of her brother, washed and mended his clothes, cooked his meals and meals for his hired help, and upon occasions worked out of doors picked up grubs on a new clearing, driving a horse in haying, and doing various other sorts of work for which it was agreed, to state it in the language of the claim filed by…