Wilson v. Wilson
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Van Bwren Ciroxiit Court. Plaintiee filed a claim in the Circuit Court, against the estate of his father, of which defendant is administrator, for §3,200 on account of services rendered iu taking care of decedent and his wife, and for services in taking care of the farm of intestate for sixteen years, ending September, 187G, and for $00 cash loaned in 1861. The court refused to allow the claim, and from this action plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Beck, Ch.J.
1. services: implied contract: parent and child. I. In 1861 the plaintiff, at that time a widower,took up his abode with his aged parents. The father owned a farm tG which the son subsequently gave attention and care, farming it one or two years and after-ward renting it, and disposing of tbe products and *45stock. Tie does not appear to have been an industrious and prosperous farmer. The farm yielded a living to the parents and the son, and little if anything more, flle parents were old, the father infirm and of weak mind. The mother at least of ordinary strength and health for a…
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