Leidig v. Coover's Executors
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Cumberland county. This was an action of debt brought by John W. Leidig and Mary Ann his wife, against Daniel Bailey and Daniel Coover, executors of Jacob Coover, deceased, to recover wages for services rendered to her father after she had obtained the age of twenty-one years.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Cumberland county. This was an action of debt brought by John W. Leidig and Mary Ann his wife, against Daniel Bailey and Daniel Coover, executors of Jacob Coover, deceased, to recover wages for services rendered to her father after she had obtained the age of twenty-one years. Mrs. Leidig was twenty-one years of age in July 1838; was married in February 1856, and for a period of over seventeen years lived with her father part of the time, and part of the time with her brothers, Michael and Jacob Coover, who were on a farm of their father’s, which they farmed with…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Agnew, J.
If we pay any regard to our oft-repeated decisions, there is no ground for reversal in this case.
The declarations of a parent may admit the filial devotion and real worth of his child; and the profit he derives from her services. They may reach farther and disclose his own sense of obligation, and his settled purpose to compensate. But all this *536is insufficient to raise a promise. The services of a daughter, standing in the relation of Mrs. Leidig to her father, are the results of the relation, not the fruits of a contract. Without a contract…
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