Potter v. Greene
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment, entered upon a nonsuit ordered at tbe Monroe Circuit. The action was brought to recover for services alleged to have been performed by the plaintiff for the defendants’ testator, who died during the pendency of the action, and the defendants were substituted as such.
1Opinion of the Court
Bradley, J.:
When at the age of fourteen years the plaintiff became a party to an indenture of apprenticeship of date January 1, 1871, by the terms of which he, with the consent of his mother, bound himself as apprentice until he attained the age of twenty-one years to the defendants’ testator. The instrument was subscribed by those parties, and annexed was the written approval and consent of the mother of the plaintiff subscribed by her of the same date. In the body of the indenture it is parenthetically stated that the father of the x>laintiff “ being dead and having abandoned liis family,”…
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- People Ex Rel. Barbour v. . GatesNew York Court of Appeals · 1870
- Knapp v. HydeNew York Supreme Court · 1869
- Maltby v. Harwood & WellsNew York Supreme Court · 1852
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