Helsley v. Ferguson

BLAND, J.-

This is a. suit against the administrator of the estate of Orlando B. Canaday, deceased, to recover the reasonable value of the services rendered by the plaintiff to Olivia Canaday, a daughter of the deceased. There was a verdict and judgment in favor of plaintiff in the sum of $7,222, and defendant has appealed.

The facts show that Olivia Canaday was born in the latter part of 1903 at the home of her parents on a farm near Windsor; that her mother, who was the sister of plaintiff, died about three weeks after the child was born; that soon thereafter the father took the child to…