Osier v. Hobbs

EakiN, J.:

This action was brought before a Justice of the Peace, to recover compensation for care and attention bestowed by the wife of appellee Hobbs, upon the child of appellant. It was taken by appeal to the Circuit Court, and submitted to the Judge sitting as a jury.

The effect of the evidence, as presented in the bill of exceptions, is : that the child, which was feeble and sickly and very young, was given by appellant Ozier’s wife to Mrs. Hobbs, to be raised. It seems the mother was then in a dying condition. Mrs. Hobbs took the child and kept it some two years or more, rendering it fair…