Lowell v. Wheeler's Estate

This is an appeal from the report of commissioners disallowing the plaintiff’s claim against the estate of Aaron Wheeler. The ease was tried by jury in the Washington county court, and verdict and judgment were rendered for the plaintiff, to which the defendant excepted.

The claim of the plaintiff was for personal services performed, as the plaintiff contends, under an express verbal contract. The defendant denied that any such contract was ever made, and that was the sole issue upon which the right to recover in the county court depended.

The plaintiff was the wife of Martin Wheeler, the son…