Briggs v. Devoe

Chase, J.:

This action is brought by a married woman for the rent of a room occupied by the defendant’s testatrix in her lifetime, and for board, care and attention given to the said testatrix while she so occupied said room. The principal contention in this court is as to whether the alleged cause of action is the property of the plaintiff or of her husband. The plaintiff was married in 1884. The testatrix was a maiden, possessed of some property, and an aunt of the plaintiff. The year following the plaintiff’s marriage her husband obtained from his father the title to a small piece of land…