McLaughlin v. . Webster
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the-Supreme Court in the fifth judicial department, entered upon an order made June 23, 1893, which affirmed a judgment in favor of defendants entered upon the report of a referee. This action was brought to recover upon a claim for work, labor and services alleged to have been rendered by plaintiff for Eobert Sherman, defendants’ testator, during a period of. thirty-eight years.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the-Supreme Court in the fifth judicial department, entered upon an order made June 23, 1893, which affirmed a judgment in favor of defendants entered upon the report of a referee. This action was brought to recover upon a claim for work, labor and services alleged to have been rendered by plaintiff for Eobert Sherman, defendants’ testator, during a period of. thirty-eight years. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. Satisfaction of the-debt by the legacies given plaintiff in decedent’s will is not pleaded as a defense.…
1Opinion of the CourtO’Brien, J.
The defendants are the executors of the will of Bobert Sherman, who died on the 26th of December, 1890. About the year 1844 the plaintiff, then a girl less than eleven years of age, went to live in the family of the deceased, her father having died some years before, and her mother in that year. During the first four years she attended school a part of the time. In the year 1856 the decedent’s wife died, and subsequently his two only children, who were born after the plaintiff became a member of his household. After the death of the children the family consisted of the decedent and the…
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