Sowash

Paragraph two of the complaint in this action alleges that the plaintiff, between the first day of October, 1913, and the twentieth day of September, 1914, at the city of Areata, county of Humboldt, rendered certain special services for the defendant’s intestate, Thomas R. Emerson; that said special services consisted of taking care and personal charge of said Thomas R. Emerson during all of the period mentioned, “looking after him and giving him a home and personal attention all of said time, frequently when said Emerson was in a besotted and drunken condition, and helpless from overindulgence in intoxicating liquors. ” It is further alleged that during the said period of time the plaintiff contracted to give and did give to said Emerson room and board, “but that the aforesaid special services set forth and referred to in paragraph 2 hereof formed no part of said contract, but were of a special character, rendered necessary by the drunken, beastial, and often nauseating and repulsive physical and mental condition in which said Emerson was frequently during said period.” It is then alleged:

It is further alleged that the said Emerson died on the-day of September, 1914, and that…