EDLER v. FICK

No. 50334.

110 N.W.2d 665 (1961)

Freda EDLER, Appellant, v. Eldo FICK, Executor of Estate of Augusta Fick, Deceased, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

September 19, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James H. Graven, Greene, and Zastrow, Noah & Smith, Charles City, for appellant.

John Van Eschen, Greene, and Harold D. Victor, Cedar Rapids, for appellee.


THORNTON, Justice.

This is an appeal by claimant, only daughter of decedent, from a denial of her claim for services for care of her mother during the last months of her life. There was substantial evidence of services rendered and from which the value of the services could have been determined. The case turned on the presumption the services rendered decedent, claimant's mother, were gratuitous. The trial court held the presumption had not been overcome and on that...

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