Hooks v. Bridgewater

The plaintiff, Bob Bridgewater, brought the suit against the administrator of .the estate of John W. Davis, deceased, and the heirs at law of Davis, to recover Davis’ estate. The suit was in fact one to enforce a verbal agreement claimed to have been entered into by the plaintiff’s father, at that time his only surviving parent, when the plaintiff was a child of nine years of age, and Davis, whereby the father contracted to surrender plaintiff’s custody and control to Davis, and Davis, a single man who never married, agreed upon that consideration to rear the plaintiff, giving him the care…