Keener v. Crull
Illinois Supreme Court
APPEAL FROM SCOTT. This is an agreed case, taken by appeal from Scott, from a judgment rendered in the Circuit Court of said county, at the October term, A. D. 1857, which judgment was rendered upon the following state of facts: Sarah Crull, wife of George Crull, while a femme sole, in the lifetime of said John Peniger, deceased, rendered services for said Peniger, which claim for services became barred by lapse of time, and it was insisted by the appellees in the court…
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APPEAL FROM SCOTT. This is an agreed case, taken by appeal from Scott, from a judgment rendered in the Circuit Court of said county, at the October term, A. D. 1857, which judgment was rendered upon the following state of facts: Sarah Crull, wife of George Crull, while a femme sole, in the lifetime of said John Peniger, deceased, rendered services for said Peniger, which claim for services became barred by lapse of time, and it was insisted by the appellees in the court below, that the case was taken out of the statute of limitations by a subsequent promise, and they relied upon the testimony…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the CouYt, by
Skinnee, J.
This was an agreed case. The plaintiffs sue, as husband and wife, for a debt due the wife when sole. The case shows that the wife, while sole and of full age, remained with her father, and worked in the family from 1833 to 1838; that, in 1850, the father, who is the defendant’s testator, in a conversation with one Longwith, said “ that he had agreed to give his daughter, (the now feme covert plaintiff with her husband,) two hundred dollars per year for her work, and he had not paid her yet, and she had gone to Ohio.” The debt, if one existed, was barred by…
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