Schultz v. Andrus

Where one renders valuable services for another, as a rule a contract to pay a reasonable value for such services will be implied.

However, “Where near relatives by blood or marriage reside together as one common family, and one of them renders services to another, and such other furnishes him board and lodging or other necessaries or comforts, a presumption arises that neither party, intended tO' receive or' to pay compensation for the services rendered on the one hand, or for the board and lodging or other necessaries or comforts on the other; that they were intended as mutual acts of…