Thrall v. Wright
Supreme Court of Vermont
Indebitatus Assumpsit iu the common counts for money paid and for work and labor. Plea, the general issue, and trial by the court, September Term, 1864, Kellogg, J., presiding. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion. Judgement for the defendant. Exceptions by the plaintiff. cited 1 Chit. PL 511 ; Gould PL ch. G, § 47, p. 329 ; Kimball v.Lamson, 2 Vt. 138 ; Beniv. Manning, 10 Vt. 225 ; Phelps v. Wooster, 11 N. H. 51; Dig. 315 (10 )
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Aldis, J.
The defendant was a minor — had a Dote against his father and employed the plaintiff, an attorney, to bring a 'suit on it against his father. The suit was afterwards discontinued. The boy told the attorney, when he applied to him to bring the suit, that lie did not reside with his father, and that his father had given him his time. The father was a man of property, willing and able to support his son, and desired that he should remain at home.
*495This suit is brought by the attorney to recover of the minor for his services and disbursements in the…
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