Dumser v. Underwood

Mr. Presiding Justice Harker

delivered the opinion op the Court.

This was an action by appellee to recover $19 from appellant for dental work done for appellant’s minor daughter; there was a recovery for $19, the amount of appellee’s bill.

It is' not disputed that the dental work wras done, or that the charges are reasonable, but the payment is resisted solely on the ground that the work was done without the express or implied promise of appellant to pay for it.

The facts, as disclosed by the record, are that appellant’s daughter Blanche, then sixteen years old, told her father that her teeth…