Anderson's Administrator v. Darland

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Clarke

— Reversing.

Prior to J arm ary 1,1917, J. S. Anderson, a negro man who claimed to be an “Indian herbalist,” bought a farm near Somerset, Ky., and erected thereon a three story sanitarium containing sixty-five rooms. In February, 1917', the appellee, Dessie Darland, a white woman, entered the sanitarium as a patient but some time thereafter accepted employment at $100.00 per month as Anderson’s secretary and remained in the sanitarium in that capacity until Ms. death November 19, 1919. After the death of Anderson, the, appellant, M. L. Jarvis, was appointed…