Hall v. Hall
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Assumpsit, for services rendered by Cynthia Hall, one of the plaintiffs, to her father, the defendant’s intestate, in his family, from November, 1852, to March 21,1857. The said Cynthia was of age March 4, 1857. On the 21st day of March, 1857, she married the said Isaac, and left her father’s house. The defendant filed a confession of her claim from the time she became twenty-one years of age to said 21st of March, and pleaded the general issue as to the residue.
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Assumpsit, for services rendered by Cynthia Hall, one of the plaintiffs, to her father, the defendant’s intestate, in his family, from November, 1852, to March 21,1857. The said Cynthia was of age March 4, 1857. On the 21st day of March, 1857, she married the said Isaac, and left her father’s house. The defendant filed a confession of her claim from the time she became twenty-one years of age to said 21st of March, and pleaded the general issue as to the residue. Por the purposes of this case it was admitted that in January, 1852, the deceased gave the said Cynthia her time and future…
1Opinion of the CourtBell, C. J.
A father may, by agreement with his minor child, relinquish to the child the right he has to his services and earnings, and he will afterward have no right to claim his wages from his employers, but the child may claim and recover them in his own name for his own benefit. Jenness v. Emerson, 15 N. H. 489; Jenney v. Alden, 12 Mass. 375; Wiíhington v. Nightingale, 15 Mass. 274; Corey v. Corey, 19 Pick. 30; Wood v. Corcoran, 1 Gray 405; Chase v. Elkins, 2 Vt. 290; Chase v. Smith, 5 Vt. 556; Morse v. Welton, 6 Conn. 547; Whiting v. Earle, 3 Rich. 201; Stiles v. Granville, 6 Cush. 158; Jennison v.…
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