Lind v. Sullestadt
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Orleans County Court, in favor of the plaintiff, entered upon the verdict of a jury. This action was originally commenced in a justice’s court by the plaintiff, a minor, by his guardian, to recover upon a guamtnim meruit, for work, labor and services rendered by him to defendant.
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Appeal from a judgment of the Orleans County Court, in favor of the plaintiff, entered upon the verdict of a jury. This action was originally commenced in a justice’s court by the plaintiff, a minor, by his guardian, to recover upon a guamtnim meruit, for work, labor and services rendered by him to defendant. The defendant claimed the services were rendered under an agreement with plaintiff’s mother that the defendant should take the plaintiff into his family as a member thereof, with a full understanding on the part of plaintiff, his mother and the defendant that they were rendered by him as…
1Opinion of the Court
Talcott, P. J.:
This, is an appeal from a judgment recovered on a verdict in the County Court of Orleans county in an action originally commenced in a court of a justice of the peace. The main facts appear by a stipulation by the counsel of the respective parties made on the trial and entered on the minutes (which was as follows):
“ That the plaintiff went to live in the family of the defendant under this arrangement made with the mother of the plaintiff— his father being dead — she then living with her son in Norway, a foreign country; that the defendant should send to the mother sufficient…
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