Pancoast v. Eldridge

Ben G. Eldridge, defendant in error, as plaintiff below, brought this suit against A. Pancoast, administrator of the estate of George W. Brown, deceased. The state of Oklahoma filed a petition of intervention on relation of the Attorney General claiming the deceased left no heirs and the property should escheat to the state.

Plaintiff alleged that during the year 1903 George W. Brown and the plaintiff entered into an oral contract wher'eby the plaintiff agreed to perform services for George W. Brown in the. capacity of laborer, farm hand, nurse, and cook and look after the household and take…