Hull v. Thoms
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Appeal from the disallowance by commissioners of a claim presented by the plaintiff against the estate of Joseph W. Kindregan of Waterbury, deceased, for services, care and attendance, taken to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Case, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $10,000, and appeal by the defendants.
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
The plaintiff’s statement of claim — construing that presented to the commissioners and that referring, to it, which was filed in the Superior Court, to gether — is for services rendered to the defendants’ decedent during the last nine years of his life, under an express agreement on his part to pay for them by a provision in his will. He died intestate, and the plaintiff’s statements set up as grounds of recovery a demand for what the services were reasonably worth, a promise to pay her $10,000 at his decease, 'and a promise to leave her his entire estate on his decease.
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2Cases cited4 opinions
- Grant v. GrantSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1893
- Cooper v. ColsonSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1904
- Nimmo v. WalkerSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1859
- State Ex Rel. Lynch v. WhitehouseSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1907
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- Stahl v. StevensonSupreme Court of Kansas · 1918
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