Frankenberger v. Schneller

The plaintiff entered the decedent’s employ in 1917. He was a nephew of the decedent’s wife. Doubtless the family relation affected to some extent the terms of employment, and the wages paid to the plaintiff may not have been the sole reward the plaintiff expected. The evidence shows that, in addition to wages, the decedent gave to the plaintiff a house and an inexpensive bungalow and that he expressed to numerous witnesses an intention, at his death, to leave the plaintiff the sum of $50,000 if the plaintiff remained in his employ until that time. Indeed, after his first wife’s death in 1925…