Gooden ex rel. Gooden v. Rayl

It is averred in the petition that the plaintiff is of the age of sixteen years, and that the suit is brought by L. L. Grooden, who is her father and next friend. That her mother died when the plaintiff was very young, and that her said father was poor, and owned no home of his own. That to secure the plaintiff the comforts of a home, her father entered into a written contract with the defendants, by which they bound themselves to provide a home for the plaintiff until she should arrive at the age of eighteen years, and at that time give to her one cow, one bed and bedding, one bureau, and…