St. Ferdinand Loretto Academy v. Bobb
Supreme Court of Missouri
Jijppealfrom St. Louis Circuit Court, In the absence of special statutes to the contrary, the father in law is not obliged to maintain his step-children.
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Jijppealfrom St. Louis Circuit Court, In the absence of special statutes to the contrary, the father in law is not obliged to maintain his step-children. (Schouler’s Domestic Eelations, 321; Commonwealth vs. Hamilton, 6 Mass., 273; Freto vs. Brown, 4 Mass., 675; Worcester vs. Marchant, 14 Pick., 510; Tubb vs. Harrison, 4 T. E., 118 ; 2 Kent Com., 192; Freto vs. Brown, 4 Mass., and in addition to the cases above cited, see the case of Gay vs. Ballou, 4 Wend., 403.) The defendant never assumed any control over the stepdaughter at all, and did not stand in loco parentis. If a man marry a widow,…
1Opinion of the CourtEwing-, Judge
This was an action to recover a sum of money, which ia claimed to be due for board and tuition furnished by plaintiff to one Adaline Frazier, the daughter of the defendant’s wife. The defendant admits in his answer, that his said step-daughtér Adaline was a pupil at said Academy for some time, but denies that he placed her there, or authorized any one to do so, and denies any indebtedness whatever.
The testimony tended to prove, that ■ the daughter was at the Academy from March, 1866, to June 1867, as a pupil, that her mother was married to defendant when Adaline was about twelve years old,…
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