Anderson v. Kendall

While the law implies a promise to compensate valuable services rendered, there is a well established exception to this general rule, which has found frequent expression by this court in the following language:

“Where near relatives by blood or marriage reside together as one common family, and one of them renders-services to another, and such other furnishes him board and lodging or other necessaries or comforts, a presumption arises that neither party intended to receive or to pay compensation for the services rendered on the one hand, or for the board and lodging or other necessaries or…