Leonard v. Gillette
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover the reasonable worth of services rendered the defendants’ intestate, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Oase, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $1,500, and appeal by the defendants for alleged errors in rulings on evidence.
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Action to recover the reasonable worth of services rendered the defendants’ intestate, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Oase, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $1,500, and appeal by the defendants for alleged errors in rulings on evidence. The complaint alleged that for six years prior to the date of the death of Joseph E. Lawrence, the defendants’ intestate, the plaintiff performed housework, general work, boarded and cared for said Lawrence continuously, and nursed him when he was sick, on his request and promise to pay for the…
1Opinion of the CourtHamersley, J.
The first exception is not well taken. It appearing that the plaintiff and Lawrence, the defendants’ intestate, had stood in the same relations to each other for sixteen years, the fact that at the commencement of these relations Lawrence asked the plaintiff to look after him and take care of him is not irrelevant to the fact that during the last six years of this period the services of the plaintiff in taking care of Lawrence were rendered at his request. Whether or not the revelancy should be deemed too remote to be material, under’ all the circumstances of the case, was within the…
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