McGaffee v. McGaffee

Plaintiff was eighty-sis years old and his son, defendant Loren MeGaffee forty-seven, at the time of trial. Defendant Gretchen MeGaffee is wife of her codefendant. Long prior to the events involved here plaintiff was engaged in the sheet metal business in Des Moines under the trade name J. F. MeGaffee Co. That business was never incorporated.

About 1930 (both parties are indefinite as to the date) plaintiff took his son into the business. “I told Loren he could come and work for me. # * * I would teach him about pipe work and when we had a chance for a plumbing job he would work under the…