Roemelmeyer v. Roemelmeyer's Estate
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Wayne; Law (Eugene F.), J., presiding. Frank Roemelmeyer presented a claim against the estate of Alice Roemelmeyer, deceased, for money had and received. The claim was disallowed by the commissioners, and plaintiff appealed to the circuit court. Judgment for defendant on a directed verdict. Plaintiff brings error.
1DissentBird, J.
Plaintiff filed a claim against the estate of his stepmother to recover for wages which he had earned and turned over to her. Defendant had verdict by direction of the court. Plaintiff left school along about 1900, when he became 15 years of age, and went to work. He lived in the family of his father, who, at that time, lived across the river from Cincinnati. There were several children. The stepmother appears to have managed the financial affairs of the whole family. Plaintiff is shown to have been a steady worker and received increasing compensation for his work as the years, went by. For…
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