Rohrbach v. Ross
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 166, Oct. T., 1920, by defendants, from judgment .of O. P. Northumberland County, May T., 1918, No. 287, on verdict for plaintiff in the case of Elmira Rohrbach v. Ambrose Ross, Charles E. Ross and Mary E. Dormer, administrators of Alexander Ross, deceased. Assumpsit for services rendered decedent. Before Cummings, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. Verdict for plaintiff for $1,100. and judgment thereon. Defendants appealed.
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Appeal, No. 166, Oct. T., 1920, by defendants, from judgment .of O. P. Northumberland County, May T., 1918, No. 287, on verdict for plaintiff in the case of Elmira Rohrbach v. Ambrose Ross, Charles E. Ross and Mary E. Dormer, administrators of Alexander Ross, deceased. Assumpsit for services rendered decedent. Before Cummings, P. J. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. Verdict for plaintiff for $1,100. and judgment thereon. Defendants appealed. Errors assigned were the charge of the court, answers to points that there was a presumption of payment for the services…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Orlady, P. J.,
Elmira Rohrbach brought an action in assumpsit against the administrators of the estate of Alexander Ross, deceased, to recover twenty-eight hundred and eighty dollars for services rendered by her to him for a period of six years prior to his death. The defense was based upon the presumption that the plaintiff had been regularly paid as a domestic servant, and this issue was fairly raised and submitted to a jury, which returned a verdict in her favor for eleven hundred dollars. The assignment of error relied on is that, under all the evidence in the case, the verdict…
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