Gordon v. Gordon's Administrator

OPINION op the Court by

Chief Justice Miller—

Reversing.

The appellant, Vm. M. Gordon, is a son of J. L. Gordon, who died in January, 1914. J. L. Gordon was the father of another son, George Gordon, who was confined in the State penitentiary, at Frankfort, in 1909, under a judgment of the Boyle circuit court.

The petition alleges that in 1909 J. L. Gordon employed the appellant to prepáre an application and to do what was necessary toward securing the parole of said George Gordon,' and agreed and promised to reimburse and pay plaintiff for all the expense that he might incur in that work; that…