Richardson v. Booker

THOMAS, Justice.

Daisy Booker filed a bill, in which she named L. L. Richardson, curator and administrator of the estate of William Berry, defendant, asking for a decree declaring her to be entitled to a fund of $12,700, part of the money received by decedent two days before his death from the sale of his property.

The prayer was based on allegations we will now condense. The appellee had resided with Berry from some time in the year 1948 until he died 16 October 1953, at the age of seventy-four years. All that time Berry was suffering from the infirmities and maladies of age and needed the…