Todtleben v. Rudowsky

Mr. Presiding Justice Clark

delivered the opinion of the court.

This suit arises out of a claim filed by Oscar F. Rudowsky against the estate of Robert Carl Rudowsky, deceased, for the maintenance of his mother, Margaret Rudowsky, the widow of the deceased, during a period extending over the last five years of the decedent’s life. On an appeal to the circuit court there was a trial before the court and a jury and a verdict and judgment rendered in favor of the claimant in the sum of $1,266.

There was evidence tending to show that the deceased and his wife had lived apart for about thirteen years…