Bird v. Bilby

Tliis is a suit for damages for breach of an oral contract. Plaintiff’s husband, William Bird, was foreman on one of defendant’s ranches, and on September 27, 1910, was engaged in the digging of a ditch thereon. While so.doing, the sides of the ditch caved in and killed him. He left his widow, the plaintiff, and several minor children the youngest of whom was six months old. Plaintiff intended and was about io bring a suit for damages against defendant on the ground that her husband’s death was caused by defend ant’s negligence. Defendant, knowing this, went to plaintiff some two weeks after…