MUSE v. MUSE

No. 38894.

40 So.2d 21 (1949)

215 La. 238

MUSE v. MUSE et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

March 21, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Kilbourne, of Clinton, for plaintiff-appellee.

W. F. Kline, of Clinton, for defendant-appellant.


McCALEB, Justice.

This is a suit by a Negro farmworker against his brothers and sisters to recover $2,400 for services allegedly rendered to his mother during her lifetime. He asserts that the services consisted of manual labor performed by him on two farms operated by his mother1 for the period extending from May 1938 to June 1946, when his mother died, and he values his labor at $25 per month for the whole period. He further avers that...

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