Leahy v. Cheney
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for an alleged breach of contract and for the reasonable worth or value of services rendered by the plaintiff’s testatrix, brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County where the plaintiff was nonsuited in a trial to the jury before Tuttle, J., and from the refusal to set aside such judgment she appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtThayer, J.
The claim of the plaintiff, as stated in her complaint and claimed in the brief of her counsel to have been established by the evidence, is that Antoinette R. Phelps, the defendants’ testatrix, in 1872 requested Hannah@ Pigott, the plaintiff’s testatrix, who was then a servant in and member of Miss Phelps’ family, to remain in such employment as long as Miss Phelps should survive, and promised as compensation to pay her monthly wages for her services, and in addition thereto to leave her by will, absolutely, a sum of money that would be sufficient to repay her for her services and to provide…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Grant v. GrantSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1893
- Hull v. ThomsSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1910
- Schempp v. BeardsleySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1910
- Grossman v. ThunderSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1905
3Cited by32 opinions
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- Graybill v. PlantSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1951
- Anderson v. ZweigbaumSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1963
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