Bright v. Ganas

The plaintiff, Paul Ganas, sued the defendant, Robert S. Bright, executor of James G. Darden, deceased, on an alleged testamentary contract for the sum of $20,000. The judgment being for the plaintiff for $8,990, the defendant appeals.

The first count of the declaration set up an oral agreement between the plaintiff and James G. Darden, entered into in the month of May, 1929, whereby the plaintiff was to live with Darden, at the latter’s newly purchased home at Cambridge, Maryland, as a servant, and, in consideration of the plaintiff’s, so continuing with Darden during his lifetime, the…