Hobson v. Edelston

Plaintiff is a physician. The object of this suit is to recover from defendant, Mrs. Lillian Edelston Jurisich, for professional services alleged to have been rendered to her deceased grandmother, Mrs. Lillian M. Shields Edelston, during March, April, May, June and July, 1933, just prior to her death.

The theory on which plaintiff bases his right to recover from defendant is that defendant's father, by his unconditional acceptance of the estate of his mother, defendant's grandmother, made himself liable for the debt now sued on, and that later, when her said father died, defendant, by her…