Raymond v. Loyl
New York Supreme Court
This was an appeal from the judgment of the St. Lawrence county court, affirming the judgment of a justice, in favor of the plaintiff. The suit was to recover an account for what were claimed to be necessaries furnished to Andrew Loyl, a son of the defendant, sixteen years of age, consisting of about §14 for clothing, §12 for board two months, books and candles while going to school, three shillings for cash, and a knife.
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This was an appeal from the judgment of the St. Lawrence county court, affirming the judgment of a justice, in favor of the plaintiff. The suit was to recover an account for what were claimed to be necessaries furnished to Andrew Loyl, a son of the defendant, sixteen years of age, consisting of about §14 for clothing, §12 for board two months, books and candles while going to school, three shillings for cash, and a knife. The defendant denied the complaint, and added that her son had worked for the plaintiff, for which she claimed judgment. Witnesses testified that in September the son of the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court, Hand, J.
A parent is under a natural obligation and duty to furnish necessaries for his infant children. *485(Reeve's Dom. Rel. 283. 1 Bl. 447. Van Valkinburgh v. Watson, 13 John. 480. Edwards, v. Davis 16 Id. 285. 2 Kent, 189.) How that obligation is to be enforced, is not so clear, Spencer, C. J. in Edwards v. Davis, says,; it is a perfect common law duty.And he cites Reeve's Dom. Rel. 284, and 1 Bl. 448. The court are made to say, in Van Valkenburgh v. Watson, that if the parent neglects that duty, any other person who supplies such necessaries, is deemed to have conferred a…
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