Wilhite v. Convent of Good Shepherd
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 28 — Action by Rosa Wilhite against the Convent of the Good .Shepherd for Compensation for .Services. APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT, COMMON PLEAS DIVISION. ,From a Judgment Dismissing the Petition, Plaintiff Appeals. . 1. This being an action against a corporation known as the Convent of the Good S'hepherd, the process was served on Mary Bigley, the mother superior of said convent, and we claim it was error to quash the return of the sheriff thereon on the…
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Case 28 — Action by Rosa Wilhite against the Convent of the Good .Shepherd for Compensation for .Services. APPEAL FROM JEFFERSON CIRCUIT COURT, COMMON PLEAS DIVISION. ,From a Judgment Dismissing the Petition, Plaintiff Appeals. . 1. This being an action against a corporation known as the Convent of the Good S'hepherd, the process was served on Mary Bigley, the mother superior of said convent, and we claim it was error to quash the return of the sheriff thereon on the affidavit of said Mary Bigley, in which she denies being an officer or agent of the defendant, because if she was not an…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion op the court by
CHIEF JUSTICE BURNAM
Reversing.
The appellant, Rosa Wilhite, brought this action against a corporation which she styled the “Convent of the Good Shepherd,” which she alleged owned and operated a laundry on Twenty-third and Bank streets, in the city of Louisville, and that their place of business was inclosed by a brick wall, twelve or eighteen feet high; that in 1887 she was brought from Hardin county and delivered to the possession of the defendant against her will and consent, and that she had been illegally detained by defendant within its inclosure and compelled to…
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- McGregor v. Fuller Implement Co.Supreme Court of Iowa · 1887
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