Brazee v. Stewart
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Motion by the plaintiff, Isaac Brazee, for a new trial upon a case. containing exceptions, ordered to be heard at the Appellate Division in the first instance, upon a nonsuit granted by the court at the Steuben Trial Term on the 19th day of April, 1899.
1Opinion of the Court
Williams, J. :
The action was brought to recover $700 expenses incurred by the plaintiff for the care, nursing and maintenance of one Anna Merrick between October 1, 1897, and May 1, 1898.
The defendant was overseer of the poor of the town of Hornby, Steuben county, during the year 1897, and until about February 15, 1898, when his term of office expired.
The plaintiff in 1897 and 1898, and for many years prior thereto, was and had been a resident of the town of Hornby, and had in his family as his housekeeper one Miss Hill, and Mrs. Merrick, her mother, also lived in the family. Mrs. Merrick was…
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