Conway v. Cooney
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Lawrence Cooney, as administrator, etc., of Luke Cooney, deceased, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Washington on the 9th day of March, 1905, upon the report of a referee. This is an appeal from a judgment entered upon the report of a referee, appointed under section 2718 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
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Appeal by the defendant, Lawrence Cooney, as administrator, etc., of Luke Cooney, deceased, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Washington on the 9th day of March, 1905, upon the report of a referee. This is an appeal from a judgment entered upon the report of a referee, appointed under section 2718 of the Code of Civil Procedure. In 1884 the plaintiff, Jennie Conway, who is a married daughter of the deceased, Luke Cooney, left her husband’s home and, -with her two children, went to live with and to work for her…
1Opinion of the Court
Parker, P. J.:
It seems that from 1884 to 1889 the plaintiff worked for her father, the deceased, Luke Cooney, in his family, under such circumstances as indicated that the services so rendered were not for ■ him. but for the mutual benefit of her own family and that of her said father, and no claim is made by her in this proceeding.for any service rendered during that period. In December, 1888, however, it. appears that the young daughter of her said father, who had previously lived with him, died, and a young son left him and went away to earn his own living. That left the father the only…
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