Stetson v. Caverly

This case comes up on motion and exceptions. It is an action in assumpsit to recover, in quantum meruit, for services as housekeeper and nurse over a period of five years and forty-eight weeks, broken twice only and each time for but a few days.

Service, as housekeeper, was begun some years before the beginning of the period contemplated in the writ. In the beginning Mr. Tibbetts was a mill worker, caring for his house and grounds, a cow and some poultry; and for a time he paid Katherine A. Stetson, plaintiff’s intestate, a small wage.

Later he ceased work and required more of his housekeeper,…