Cannon v. Carr

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Reversing.

This suit is between a mother, Mrs. Cora Carr, and a stepfather, appellees, and a daughter, Mrs. Eliza Mae Cannon, and her husband, appellants. The single question of law presented in the direct appeal has emerged from much testimony concerning claims of sacrifice and ingratitude on the one side, and of devotion and unreciprocated kindness on the other. Several legal questions raised in the pleadings have passed out of the case, and we are not concerned with the respective contentions as to moral obligations.

The question is whether an oral…