Shabrick v. Moore

This is an appeal by plaintiff Ann M. Shabrick from a judgment for defendant Florence Genieve Moore, as executrix of the estate of E. H. Moore, entered upon the granting of her motion for judgment on the pleadings.

Plaintiff’s complaint, set up in two counts, alleged in the first an express oral contract whereby plaintiff agreed to act as nurse and housekeeper for E. H. Moore in return for a promise to make her a beneficiary under his will; in the second, a quasi contract for the reasonable value of services rendered by plaintiff to E. H. Moore.

Defendant demurred generally to the complaint and…