IL Contracts Case Briefs Webb v. McGowan Court of Appeals of Alabama, 1936 TOPIC: Moral obligation CASE: Webb v. McGowin, 27 Ala App. 82, 168 So. 196, 232 Ala. 374 (1936). FACTS: the plaintiff, Webb, filed a suit against the defendants who were the of the McGowin estate’s executors for failure to continue the payments that the deceased was paying him. The plaintiff had sustained permanent and severe injuries while saving the deceased’s life, who had afterward promised to pay the plaintiff money for as long as he lives as gratitude. However, the executors of the estate had stopped the payments when McGowin died. HISTORY: the court ruled the matter in favor of the defendants causing the plaintiff to appeal.