Legal Opinion
Hurdle v. American Security & Trust Co.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided May 6, 1929No. 4751PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARTIN, Chief Justice.
This is an appeal from a judgment dismissing a bill of complaint filed by appellant as plaintiff against the defendant as executor of the estate of Mary Ann Spencer, deceased.
The plaintiff alleged in the bill that on December 1, 1914, the decedent, Mary Ann Spencer, being aged, infirm, and partially blind, engaged plaintiff to wait upon her and serve her with her meals and to render all such personal services for her as were made necessary by her age and weakness, and as a consideration for such services agreed to bequeath and devise to plaintiff, by her last will and…
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- Goff v. BeatySupreme Court of Arkansas · 1923
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