Muse v. Muse

McCALEB, Justice.

This is a suit by a Negro farmworker against his brothers and sisters to recover $2,400 for services allegedly rendered to his mother during her lifetime. He asserts that the services consisted of manual labor performed by him on two farms operated by his mother 1 for the period extending from May 1938 to June 1946, when his mother died, and he values his labor at $25 per month for the whole period. He further avers that his mother’s succession was opened shortly after her death; that her children were recognized as her sole heirs and placed in possession of her property and…