Hart v. Wood

HOGAN, Judge.

In this case, the respondent claimant sought to recover the sum of $1,000.00 for services rendered to Lucy Ann Louise James, deceased, during a three-year period from the fall of 1956 to September 1959. The claim was originally filed in probate court and was transferred to circuit court for a jury trial under the provisions of Section 473.420, par. 2.1 The jury awarded the claimant the sum of $400.00, and the defendant administrator has appealed.

Miss James was a single woman of advanced years who, during the period in question, lived alone on a small farm near Lebanon in Laclede…