Cooksey v. Shanks

This is a suit to recover for services performed on a quantum meruit basis, the agreement being silent as to compensation.

The case was tried on oral evidence, but no bill of exceptions was filed in this Court; only the technical record was filed.

The suit was instituted against W. M. Shanks, as executor of the will of Martha J. Shores, deceased, and as executor of the will of Mollis E. Shanks, deceased.

It was averred in the plaintiff's declaration “that during the last illnesses of Martha J. Shores and Mollie E. Shanks, she was employed hy each of them to care for them in their illnesses”;…