Goodale v. Brockner
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment in favor of the defendants, and from an order made upon a motion for a new trial setting aside a verdict in favor of the plaintiff and directing a judgment to be entered in favor of the defendants.
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Appeal from a judgment in favor of the defendants, and from an order made upon a motion for a new trial setting aside a verdict in favor of the plaintiff and directing a judgment to be entered in favor of the defendants. The action was brought by the superintendent of the poor of the county of Orange against the executors of one Abraham Maze to recover for board, lodging and care of the testator’s wife, who it was alleged became poor and insane, and whose husband had, it was alleged, without her fault, abandoned and neglected to support her.
1Opinion of the Court
Dykman, J.:
Ahraham Maze was married to his wife about the year 1852, and she lived with him at his home in the city of New York for about one *622year. Then she left him and went to the house of her half-brother in Orange county. Here she was found to be insane, and by regular proceedings instituted for that purpose a committee of her person and estate was appointed and she remained in his charge for some time. There is confusion in the dates, but they are not important. Then the committee was discharged and an order of the court made that she be delivered over to the overseer of the poor of the…
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