Brown v. Succession of Laing

Plaintiff appealed from judgment that sustained a plea of prescription of one year and dismissed her suit against Mrs. Frances L. White, administratrix of the succession of her mother, Mrs. Sallie Ware Laing, deceased, wherein she sought to have her claim for services as nurse to the deceased recognized and ordered paid in due course of administration of the succession.

The facts as disclosed by the record are these: Plaintiff was employed as day and night nurse to the deceased in the latter part of the year 1934 at a fixed daily wage, all of which was paid to April 20, 1938. Thereafter, to…