Sherwood v. Nissen

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

The question in this appeal is whether plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment was properly sustained in an action on an oral contract for conservation work on a farm.

The papers before the trial court and now before us show that for a number of years, George R. Aikman, who died at 85 on March 8, 1968, owned a half-section farm in Audubon County, Iowa. Mr. Aikman and his wife, who preceded him in death, had but one child who lived to adulthood, Ethel Mae. In 1936 Ethel Mae married Milo A. Nissen. For five years following, Milo worked as George Aikman’s hired man on the farm.

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