Pearce v. Plumer

HALLEY, V.C.J.

The parties will be referred to according to the positions they occupied in the trial court.

H. A. Johnson was a resident of Perry, Oklahoma, and had been for a great many years. The defendant was a distant relative and lived with her husband at Edmond, Oklahoma. On November 7, 1946, at the home of the defendant Pearce, H. A. Johnson suffered a severe stroke of apoplexy of the brain and was in a very serious condition from that time until his death on March 12, 1947. Mr. Johnson lived in Perry at a rooming house owned by Mrs. Lena Howard. He had his own room, in which he kept a…