Klessig v. Lea

Plaintiff, the daughter of Louis Klessig, deceased, brings this action against the administrator of his estate and his other heirs, alleging in substance that, she worked as a farm hand for her father until she was 29 years old; that he agreed to compensate her for such services out of his estate “prior to or at the time of his death;” that pursuant thereto he, in 1912, executed a deed conveying a lot he owned in New Richland to her as grantee, and delivered the deed in escrow to the judge of probate, Charles Spillane, which deed she was to receive upon the death of the grantors therein, her…