Estate of Tulloch v. Latimer

The court admitted almost all the testimony which Webb offered regardless of its being hearsay or otherwise incompetent and even with this testimony it seems quite clear that Tulloch never made any express agreement to compensate Webb in consideration of services to be rendered. From 1925 to 1938 Webb was brought up and lived in Tulloch’s family and from 1933 to 1938 his wife lived there also. There is no suggestion that Tulloch ever charged them for their maintenance or that during this period Webb claimed he was to be paid for what he did. In such circumstances there is a presumption that…