Waldron v. Ritchings
New York Court of Common Pleas
Appeal from a judgment of the marine court. This action was brought by Laura Waldron against Caroline Ritchings, otherwise called Caroline Bernard. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.—Daly, Ch. J.
The recovery in *362this case was for two weeks’ services by the plaintiff in Boston, as a member of an operatic troupe called the Ritchings Opera Company, of which the defendant was the manager, and for the plaintiff’s expenses in returning to Mew York, amounting in the whole to one hundred and six dollars.
The defendant is a married woman, and admits in her answer that she is possessed of a separate estate and property, and that she was and is carrying on business on her separate account; the business, as appears by the evidence, being the proprietorship and management…
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