Butcher v. Geissenhainer
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Jacob A. Geissenhainer, as executor, etc., from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of ¡Nassau on the 31st day of May, 1907, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 31st day of May, 1907, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Miller, J.:
This is said to be an action for services; in effect it is an action to recover damages for the breach of a contract alleged to have been made by the defendant’s testator to leave by will all his property to the plaintiff and three sisters. The plaintiff has recovered the sum of $17,000 as the value of the services alleged to have been gendered by her pursuant to and in consideration of said agreement, *273The complaint alleged that the services began in 1889; on the trial the plaintiff sought to show that the contract was made in the spring of 1891, and that said services were…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Roberge v. . BonnerNew York Court of Appeals · 1906
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- In re the Estate of McMillanAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1915
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