Doty v. Spokane & Eastern Trust Co.

The plaintiff, Mande G. Doty, filed a claim with the defendant trust company, as executor, for $2,500 for personal services rendered by her to the testator, Frances Emma Yelguth, for five years prior to her death in May, 1926; and, upon the rejection of her claim by the defendant, the plaintiff sought by this action to recover the amount in question.

She alleged that, sometime in May, 1921, the deceased orally agreed with her to employ her to nurse and attend the deceased and administer to her wants generally, it appearing that, for some years before her death at about eighty years of age, the…