Westerfeld v. Reed

SMITH, Chief Justice.

In 1929, appellee, Mrs. Nora Reed, and her husband and two grown sons rented a part of the home of C. W. Westerfeld, a nearly eighty year old bachelor, residing, theretofore alone, in Beeville. The Reeds paid $12.50 a month to Westerfeld as rent. Reed died on June 10, 1932, and Mrs. Reed and her two sons continued to live in the Westerfeld house, paying the same rent therefor, until December, 1932, when, under some sort of an arrangement between the two, Mrs. Reed was given the free use of the house theretofore occupied by her, as well as her household expenses, and she…