45 Iowa 308 | Iowa | 1876
“ There is no evidence of an express contract that he either should or should not be paid any amount of wages, and he did not claim any while with deceased, and so far as appears affirmatively did not claim, expect or demand compensation at or before the time he rendered the services. He had a comfortable home with deceased, and was not disposed to leave, being well treated, although at times deceased desired him to leave, and at others, again, desired him to remain. He was treated as a member of the family, as far as all the circumstances justified. There is no evidence that plaintiff demanded wages until after the death of his friends, the son and father and wife, but they being gone, and the estate passing to others, and his home destroyed, he desires compensation.”
From this finding of facts the following conclusion and no
Reversed.