Legal Opinion

Fisher v. Fisher

Wisconsin Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1856PublishedCited by 21 opinions

These two cases were of the same nature ; the plaintiffs being sons of the defendant, and severally suing to recover for services rendered their father, after arriving at the age of majority, and while continuing to reside with him. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion of the court.

1Opinion of the Court

By the,Court,

Cole, J.

In opening this cause to the court and jury in the Circuit Court, the counsel for the plaintiff in error (who was plaintiff below), stated in substance, that the action was brought to recover for the labor and services rendered by the plaintiff for the defendant, after the plaintiff had arrived at the age of twenty-one years; that the defendant was the father *473of tbe plaintiff, and tbat the plaintiff arrived at the age of twenty-one years in the year 1848, and that from that time until August, 1854, he continued to reside with, and labor for his father, the defendant, as a…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Candor's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1843

3Cited by21 opinions

  1. Estate of KesslerWisconsin Supreme Court · 1894
  2. Hall v. FinchWisconsin Supreme Court · 1871
  3. Tyler v. BurringtonWisconsin Supreme Court · 1876
  4. Pietsch v. PietschIllinois Supreme Court · 1910
  5. Wilkey v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1939

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