Cowdery

This action is brought to recover the reasonable value of certain services, as housekeeper, superintendent of the household and domestic affairs, and as nurse, alleged to have been performed by plaintiff for her deceased uncle, George M. Kasson, in his lifetime. For several years immediately preceding the death of Kasson he was afflicted with various disorders of body and mind which rendered it necessary that he should have thé constant attention of someone to take care of his person and home. He engaged the plaintiff to perform this service for him, agreeing that she should be well paid. To show the value of her services, the plaintiff called as a witness Mrs. S. A. Hathaway, who testified to her acquaintance with deceased; that she had been at his house *316 the night before and on the morning of his death, and had observed what was necessary to be done to take care of him properly; and that she had occupied a position at the state insane asylum as a keeper of a ward, it being her duty to superintend the ward, and see that the work of caring for the patients was properly done. She was then asked, “Prom your experience at the asylum, and what you saw on the Kasson ranch, are you…