Stuart v. Lord

The suit was brought to recover for services rendered to the defendant’s intestate from January 26, 1897, to January 26, 1899, at which latter date the intestate died. It is alleged that the servicess were worth the sum of thirty-five dollars per month. The court found that the plaintiff rendered services to the intestate as housekeeper, cook, and general farm servant for the time alleged “at the fixed price of fifteen dollars per month, and the proceeds of the butter and eggs from the farm of the said” deceased, and upon the issue of payment the court found that her work and services…