Caswell v. Smith's Estate

This suit arises out of a claim for $60,000 made by appellee Sidney R. Caswell, herein called plaintiff, against the estate of Lydia E. Smith, deceased. Plaintiff asserts that, in consideration of an abandonment by him in 1919 of a plan to remove his family from Ludington to Detroit, where he had employment with a manufacturing concern at an annual salary of $3,000, and of his continuing to maintain his family residence in Ludington nearby that of Miss Smith, so that he and his family might continue to render services to her as they had theretofore done, Miss Smith agreed she "would at her…