Moore v. Sykes' Estate

Appellant owned and operated a negro boarding house in the city of Aberdeen. Homer Sykes, according to all testimony, boarded at said house. He was not related to appellant either by affinity or consanguinity; he had no children. And he had no near relatives living in that community. About the year 1922 his wife, who for two years theretofore had lived with him in a house owned by him in said city, had left him and had gone North, where she has since that time resided. Soon after her departure, Sykes went to appellant’s boarding house, and there remained and boarded until his death in 1930.…