Roth v. Patino

Defendant moves for judgment Qn the pleadings, testing the enforcibility, as a matter of law, of an extraordinary oral contract alleged to have been made in France in June, 1940. Plaintiff was then twenty years old and had shortly before been married to a man named Both. Defendant, likewise married, was at that time about eighty. Under the agreement as alleged, plaintiff, in consideration of $1,000 per month, “ during the remainder of the plaintiff’s natural life ”, was to devote all or substantially all her time to defendant; to account to him for all her waking moments; to be at his beck,…