Gardner v. Hines

OPINION

By LAMNECK, J.

This is an action in which the plaintiff seeks to recover the sum of $242.00 from the defendant for the care and maintenance of Alma Hines, the mother of the defendant. The plaintiff is a son-in-law of the said Alma Hines and support-: ed her for 114 days between September 9, 1945 and January 21, 1946.

The parties waived a trial by jury and the issue was sub- ' mitted to the court without the intervention of a jury.

It appears from the evidence that sometime in 1939 the defendant and the said Alma Hines entered into a written contract, which is not now in existence but…