Cole v. Bentley

This action was commenced before a Justice of the Peace, against a widow, to charge her separate property for services as a physician rendered to her husband in his last illness. Plaintiff had been the family physician but was not at the time of these services. That they were rendered, and at the request of the deceased, and were of the value claimed, was' not disputed, the only question made being whether they constituted a family expense within the meaning of See. 15 of Oh. 68, B. S., which declares that “the expenses of the family and of the education of the children shall be chargeable…