Whitehead v. Dillard

Wilda Butler Whitehead Dillard brought a suit against Richard H. Whitehead for specific performance of an alleged oral agreement to convey to the plaintiff a described tract of land in consideration of services to be rendered by her as a nurse and a housekeeper. The petition alleged that the wife of the defendant was “an invalid, bedridden and helpless,” and that the defendant agreed with petitioner “that if she would come to the home of said Richard H. Whitehead, nurse his said wife, look after the home, do the cooking, and do generally the things necessary in and about said home, that he…