Laughnan v. Estate of Laughnan
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Iowa county: Geoege ClemeNtsoN, Circuit Judge. Action to recover tbe reasonable value of services rendered John Laugbnan, deceased, tbe father of plaintiff, from 1883 to 1893, wbicb services it is alleged were rendered upon an express agreement made between the deceased and plaintiff that tbe latter should be compensated therefor at the father’s death.
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Appeal from a judgment of tbe circuit court for Iowa county: Geoege ClemeNtsoN, Circuit Judge. Action to recover tbe reasonable value of services rendered John Laugbnan, deceased, tbe father of plaintiff, from 1883 to 1893, wbicb services it is alleged were rendered upon an express agreement made between the deceased and plaintiff that tbe latter should be compensated therefor at the father’s death. John Laughnan died testate January 9, 1913, at the age of ninety-four, leaving plaintiff only $500 out of an estate valued at about $4,500. The circuit court found that an express agreement to pay…
1Opinion of the CourtVinje, J.
Eor many years prior to his death John Laughnan lived on a farm of 508 acres in Iowa county. ITe had two sons, plaintiff, born in 1859, and William, born in 1863, and one daughter, Mary, the executrix of the estate and the residuary legatee. His wife, Margaret, died in 1914 at the age of eighty-six or eighty-seven. About the year 1888 he deeded 160 acres to his son William, who then married. Mcury married and left the farm about 1893, leaving plaintiff and his parents on the farm. In 1898 William bought the old homestead, consisting of 240 acres, his parents reserving a life lease of the home…
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