Clawans v. Sheetz

ROBB, Associate Justice.

Appeal from a judgment in the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia sustaining the motion of the defendant (appellee) to strike plaintiff’s (appellant’s) declaration, plaintiff electing to stand thereon.

The suit (filed November 8, 1935) is in assumpsit, based on an alleged oral contract to recover the reasonable value of services alleged 'to have been performed by plaintiff for defendant’s testator and for monies alleged to have been advanced by plaintiff for and in behalf of the decedent from June 27, 1918, to date of his death, November 11,…