Hammond v. Ghent

The sole question in this case is whether the evidence sustains the finding of the jury that the services, board, and room were furnished deceased under an express contract obligating him to pay their reasonable value. The claimant’s husband is a nephew of the deceased. Claimant and her husband owned their home in the village of Cataract, Wisconsin, and eighty acres of wild land, of which some three acres were cultivated. Deceased first came to claimant’s home in the summer of 1921. Prior to that he had lived upon a farm. He stayed at claimant’s home from time to time each year up to 1932,…