Anderson v. Cardwell

This action was brought by the plaintiff, Lizzie Cardwell, defendant in error, against the defendant, Walter R. Anderson, executor of the estate of Ida Chadwick, deceased, plaintiff in _ error, to recover the sum of $3,300 for personal services rendered the testatrix during the last years of her life as nurse, housekeeper, chambermaid, cook and washerwoman. The contract of employment was oral, by the terms of which plaintiff and her family were to move into the house of Ida Chadwick as the servant and keeper of said Ida Chadwick ; no fixed price for said services was agreed upon between the…