Peake v. Jenkins

The paper-writing in controversy here, is in the words and figures, to wit:

“My mother has several times spoken to me of her wishes in relation to my brother J ohn. She says father, in his lifetime, said he wanted John to have two hundred dollars a year for staying at home to nurse and take care of them in their old age, but she told me she had never had it in her power to pay him anything, and it is her [will] wish that he shall be paid two hundred dollars per year for every year he has been staying at home with her before and since father’s death. She has frequently spoken of it to me, and…