Walsh v. Herrick

Appeal by the plaintiff from a judgment after trial by the Chemung County Court, without a jury, in favor of the plaintiff, on the ground that the judgment was inadequate and the case decided upon a wrong principle. The action was brought upon a contract between the *800plaintiff and Mirra L. Webb, evidenced by a writing dated April 24, 1930, reading as follows: “ I, Myra L. Webb, agree to pay Mrs. James Walsh [the plaintiff], Fifteen Dollars per week for care and services as long as I remain with her.” At ■the time that the paper was signed Mrs. Webb was eighty-eight years of age and lived for…