Porter

Judgment was rendered for plaintiff in the sum of two hundred and ninety-two dollars and thirty-six cents, with interest compounded yearly from the eleventh day of November, 1868. Defendant appeals from the judgment and from an order denying a motion for a new trial.

The appellant certainly makes a pretty strong case, showing that the judgment in this case does an injustice to appellant and to the estate which he represents; but we think that there was evidence sufficient to support the findings of fact, and, taking those findings as true, we cannot see any clear ground for a reversal of the judgment.

The appellant is the grandson of the deceased, Ann M. Fillebrown, who died in 1894. In 1866, when plaintiff was about three years old, he was taken into the family of the deceased in the state of Wisconsin, and was raised, cared for, maintained, and educated by her as one of her own children and at her own expense. He lived with her continuously until he was about fifteen years old, when he went to the state of Nebraska, and remained there two or three years. He then returned to the house of deceased, and shortly afterward came with her to California. He continued to live with the…