Bateman v. Franklin

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

Plaintiff brought this action against an administrator to enforce an oral contract with parties now deceased.

Plaintiff alleged that in the year 1894, when he was 16 years of age, his paternal uncle George W. Bateman and wife, Margaret J. Bateman, who then resided on a farm (160 acres) in Pottawatomie county, and who had no children of their own, made a verbal agreement with plaintiff that if he would come and live with them as a member of their family and aid and assist in the farm work they would treat him as a child of their own, and if he…