Fitzpatrick v. Michael

In the summer of 1936, Marie Ellen Fitzpatrick, a native and resident of Harford County, who was then about fifty-two years old, was employed by Orion C. Michael, of Aberdeen, in that county, as a practical nurse for his wife, who was an invalid, and she remained in that employment until the wife’s death in February, 1937. Upon Mrs. Michael’s death, Miss Fitzpatrick informed her employer that she was about to leave his home, and Michael, who was then about seventy-six years only, and apparently in uncertain health, asked her to wait a few days, that he wanted to talk over his plans for the…