Chambers v. Boyd
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, George B. Boyd, as executor, etc., from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 3d day of January, 1906, upon the verdict' of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 3d day of January, 1906, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
McLaughlin, J.:
The plaintiff, as the assignee of one Gertrude Creighton, née Beckett, brought this action to recover from the estate of Mary J. Quackenbush for services alleged to have been rendered by her to the testatrix from 1888 to November, 1901.
The plaintiff’s assignor was not related to Mrs. Quackenbush either by blood or marriage and that she, in 1888, at the request of Mrs. Quackenbush, left Jamaica, W. I., where she was earning twenty dollars per month as a governess, and went to live with the testatrix, and thereafter continued to live with her until November 14, 1901, was not…
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