Kingsbury v. Robertson

TOM GLAZE, Justice.

Appellant llene Kingsbury is the niece and heir of Claude Rogers, who died on October 16, 1989. Rogers, a widower with no children, had engaged appellee Maxine Robertson to be his caretaker-nurse and gave her power of attorney on February 15, 1989. There was evidence that Robertson was representing herself to be Rogers’s wife at the time of his death, although the two had never married. On November 12, 1993, Kingsbury sued Robertson, alleging breach of fiduciary duty and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Specifically, the complaint stated that Robertson: (1)…