Duncan v. Johnson

FOSTER, Justice.

The only question argued in this case is whether a daughter of an aged insane mother should be reimbursed out of her estate for services and supplies necessarily rendered in caring for her.

The mother had lived with this daughter, who is appellant here, most of the time for fifteen years before her death, except when in the asylum. She was sent to the asylum in 1932, and from then until 1936 she spent approximately twenty months at the hospital, and twelve months at the dwelling of appellant, and died September 20, 1936, at the age of seventy-nine. She left a small dwelling of…