Ormsby v. Rhoades
Supreme Court of Vermont
GENERAL Assumpsit. Heard on a referee’s report, September Term, 1886, Walker, J., presiding. Judgment, that the plaintiff could recover only upon his claim, item No. 2, $16.20, damages, and costs be apportioned ; and that he could not recover for his services, found by the referee to be.worth $200 over and above what the defendant furnished him, and interest from April 24, 1881. Exceptions by the plaintiff.
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GENERAL Assumpsit. Heard on a referee’s report, September Term, 1886, Walker, J., presiding. Judgment, that the plaintiff could recover only upon his claim, item No. 2, $16.20, damages, and costs be apportioned ; and that he could not recover for his services, found by the referee to be.worth $200 over and above what the defendant furnished him, and interest from April 24, 1881. Exceptions by the plaintiff. The referee found that the plaintiff’s father was a brother of the defendant’s wife; that the plaintiff was born in 1862, and both his parents deceased in 1870 at Troy, N. Y.; that in the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Rowell, J.
The plaintiff’s claim, shortly stated, is this; that in order to entitle the deféndant to be treated as having stood in loco parentis to .him, he must have had the legal custody of his. person, and have been bound to support, protect, and educate him during the time in question, which he did not have and was not bound to do ; that the defendant took him from the asylum into his family of his own motion, without authority, and could not force a quasi family relation upon him, being .an infant, so as to now shield himself from paying what his…
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