Brown v. Cummings

The plaintiff brought suit to recover compensation for services rendered in nursing her step-father, the defendant’s intestate, during his last sickness, at his special request, when she was not a member of his family, but without any express promise to pay for the same. At the conclusion of the testimony for the .plaintiff the court granted the defendant’s motion for a nonsuit upon the ground that the relationship of the plaintiff to the deceased precluded her recovery in the action, without proof of an express and definite promise of the deceased to pay for her service.(1) In the absence of…