Baker v. Cook

Plaintiff in error filed this suit on October 20, 1927, against John A. Cook, independent executor and sole beneficiary under the will of Thomas A. Cook, deceased, on an obligation alleged to be due her by reason of a contract made with the said Thomas A. Cook. She alleged that about the year 1891 she was an orphan girl about 14 years of age, and was taken into the house of John A. Cook in Cook county, Ill., to wait upon and be a companion to his invalid mother, and also the mother of Thomas Cook, who was a bachelor brother of John Cook; that she resided in said- home for a period of about 7…