Alexander v. Estate of Groves

CLARK, Judge.

In this jury-tried case, respondent Alexander was awarded $2000.00 on his claim against the estate of Edgar Thomas Groves, deceased. The estate appeals contending error in the admission of irrelevant and prejudicial testimony over objection of the estate, and in the failure of the court to sustain the estate’s motion for directed verdict. Affirmed.

Alexander, age 65 at the time of trial in 1980, had engaged in farming substantially all of his life. From 1929 until 1938, he was employed by Joe and Harve Groves, brothers. After 1938, when Joe Groves died, Alexander worked on a…