Moore v. Rice

This case was before this court on a former appeal. See Moore v. Rice,80 S.W.2d 451.

The case is a suit by Rice against Moore, administrator of the estate of T. M. Jones, deceased, and Jones's heirs, on a contract alleged to have been entered into about 1918 between Jones and Rice, whereby Jones agreed with Rice, who was then a boy about seven years of age, that if Rice would continue to live with and care for Jones, etc., until Jones's death that Jones would in his will devise all of his property to Rice. Jones died in 1932 intestate. About five months after Jones's death, Rice instituted the…