Hodge v. Bishop

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, C. J.:

This was an action to recover on an alleged oral contract for services rendered by a daughter to her parents. Daughter and parents are dead, and the administrator of the daughter’s estate filed a claim against her father’s estate in the probate court. The administrators of the father’s estate resisted the claim and the probate court rejected it.

The matter was appealed to the district court, where it was tried before a jury, which failed to reach a verdict. The administrators of the father’s estate now appeal to this court on the only…