Munson v. Washband
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Assumpsit, for services rendered and moneys paid out by tlie plaintiff, as a counsellor at law, for Minerva E. Washband, one of the defendants, before her intermarriage with John S. Washband, the other defendant.
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Assumpsit, for services rendered and moneys paid out by tlie plaintiff, as a counsellor at law, for Minerva E. Washband, one of the defendants, before her intermarriage with John S. Washband, the other defendant. The case was tried in the superior court, on the general issue with notice of the defense of infancy, before Me Curdy, I. On the trial it was admitted by the plaintiff that the said Minerva was an infant at the time when the services were rendered and the moneys paid. The principal defense was that the services and advancements were not of the nature of necessaries. The plaintiff…
1Opinion of the Court
Hinman C. J.
This is an action against husband and wife, in which the plaintiff seeks to recover for his services as an attorney and counsellor at law, and for moneys expended by him, in commencing and prosecuting, in favor of the wife, while she was a feme sole, and an infant under the age of twenty-one years, an action for the breach of a promise of marriage, against her present husband. The conduct of the defendant in that suit, both before and after its commencement, in connection with the conduct of the plaintiff’s father, was such as to render the. services and expenses, thus rendered…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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