Watkins v. De Armond

It is alleged in appellee’s complaint, that appellant, by his cruel treatment, drove his wife and infant children from his home, and left them without the necessaries of life; that the appellee received them into his house and supplied them with food, clothing and other necessaries, and that the appellant is indebted to him for such necessaries in the sum of $1,000.

Where a complaint states such facts as raise an implied promise it is good, although it does not in terms aver that there was a promise. Where the facts are properly pleaded from which the law implies a promise, the courts will…