Collar v. Patterson

On the 30th of April, 1887, the plaintiff in error filed her amended claim against the estate of William McClintock, deceased, in the county court of St.Clair county, as follows.v “For sixteen years’ work, at $312.50 per year, from 1846 to 1862, $5000. For the sum acknowledged to be due to said Nancy Collar for said work and services, by William McClintock, in his lifetime, in a certain will executed by him, $5000.” On a trial in that court she recovered judgment for $2250. On appeal to the circuit court that judgment was increased to $5000, but the Appellate Court for the Fourth District, at…