Cullen v. Woolverton

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hendrickson, J.

This is an action brought by the defendant in error against the administrator of Asher Woolverton, deceased, to recover a claim for alleged services of David Lawshe, a stepson, as nurse and attendant upon his stepfather during the latter part of his life. The plaintiff below claimed the right to bring the suit in his own name, by virtue of an assignment of the claim alleged to have been made to him by Lawshe, under the authority of the act of 1890. Gep. Stat., p. 2591, § 340.

The trial of the case resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff, *645a…