Johnson v. ESTATE OF GAUGH

Appellant filed his first amended claim against appellees for specified services of the alleged reasonable value of $45,000.00 allegedly performed by appellant for the decedent, Ida M. Gaugh, and her husband, George Gaugh, now deceased, from August, 1946, to March, 1951.

The claim, denied by appellees’ statutory answer, was submitted to a jury for trial. At the conclusion of appellant’s evidence, the court, upon appellees’ motion, directed, a verdict for appellees. Upon the jury’s verdict in favor of appellees, the court rendered consonant judgment.

Appellant assigns as error the overruling of…