Davis v. Nipper's Estate

This is an appeal from the judgment of the chancery court, sitting in probate, disallowing the claims-of Mr. and Mrs. Hale Davis, who are husband and wife, against the estate of one C. J. Nipper. They testifiecl that Nipper was an elderly man, living alone, his wife being dead, and that they moved into the Nipper home in the spring of 1938, and that Mrs. Davis became the housekeeper, and did the household work, and on occasions worked in the field, and, in addition, operated an ice cream station, from which an income of $312 was derived, and sold chickens which she raised in the sum of $120,…