Hill

This is an action to recover the alleged reasonable value of certain services performed by plaintiff’s wife, Maria Angustias Hill, for defendant. The defendant had judgment, and the plaintiff appeals on the judgment-roll.

*43 The facts of the case, as disclosed by the findings of the court or admitted by the pleadings, are as follows: On or about the eighteenth day of April, 1894, defendant requested Mrs. Hill, plaintiff’s wife, to come to his, defendant’s, house, and take care of him and do the necessary work about and in the house, and agreed that he would support and maintain her while she so remained, and when he should get married he would deed to her and her husband a home during their lives, designating certain realty in the city of Santa Barbara as the property to be so conveyed.

Under said promise Mrs. Hill and her husband went to defendant’s house and remained there until defendant got married on December 30, 1895, and while so remaining did the work and services there to be performed under said promise and agreement; and her services were worth fifty dollars per month while she remained in his service, to wit, from April 18, 1894, to December 30, 1895.

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