Dauenhauer v. Succession of Browne

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Breaux, J.

Plaintiffs’ claim from the succession of Samuel Browne the sum of three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars, for personal services rendered during one year preceding his death. The plaintiffs are poor; the husband is a journeyman painter. They were his tenants, and under an agreement with them they gave him his board, lodging and washed his clothes, in consideration of the rental of the property they occupied as tenants. He was an old man; about one year before his death he became feeble, and frequently ill, and at times was physically…