Channel v. Mackey

WILLIAMS, Vice Chief Justice.

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as plaintiff, brought the action from which this appeal was taken, against defendant in error, hereafter referred to as defendant, as executor of the estate of Phillis Johnson, deceased, for compensation for services rendered under a verbal agreement on the part of Phillis Johnson to will plaintiff a home, pursuant to which agreement plaintiff worked as a maid, and had done farm work, and cared for deceased from October of 1935 until October of 1949. Phillis Johnson died in 1957, devising all of her estate to other…