Gauss v. Trump
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, Ravalli County; R. Lee McCulloch, Judge. Action by John Gauss against Louise C. Tramp, as administratrix with will annexed of Olive Ahrens, deceased. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals.
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Appeal from District Court, Ravalli County; R. Lee McCulloch, Judge. Action by John Gauss against Louise C. Tramp, as administratrix with will annexed of Olive Ahrens, deceased. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. By the provisions of section 7532, Revised Codes, the presentation of a claim against the estate is a condition precedent to the maintenance of the action; and by section 7525 a presentation of it within the time limited in the notice is a prerequisite to recovery. The sections of the statutes above and the decisions of this court with reference to necessary…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sanner
The complaint of respondent alleges in substance that about May 15, 1906, he entered into an oral contract with Olive Ahrens, *96now deceased, in and by which it was agreed that he should perform work and labor in the care and management of her ranch during her lifetime in consideration that she should furnish him food, clothing, and other necessaries of life and that she should devise her said ranch property to him at her death; that he thereupon entered upon the duties thus imposed upon him and continued to discharge them until her death on December 14, 1910, and fully performed the contract…
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