BROOKS v. BROOKS

1 Div. 594.

81 So.2d 596 (1955)

Guy E. BROOKS v. Orlow BROOKS, Adm'r.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

June 30, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jas. E. Moore and Herndon H. Wilson, Mobile, for appellant.

J. B. Blackburn, Bay Minette, for appellee.


GOODWYN, Justice.

Appellant filed a claim against his mother's estate for services rendered over a period of some 29 years. The probate court denied the claim. An appeal was then taken to the circuit court. The basis of the claim, as stated in the complaint filed in the circuit court, is an alleged oral contract entered into on May 23, 1923, whereby the mother "agreed to reasonably compensate the said plaintiff out of her estate upon her death, for his services which...

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