In re the Judicial Settlement of the Estate of Sutton
New York Supreme Court
Appeal by Henry J. Williams, as administrator, etc., from a decree of the Surrogate’s Court of the county of Delaware, entered in the office of said surrogate on the 21st day of October, 1912, in so far as it adjudges the claimant Mary Sutton Lakin to be entitled to the sum of $598 from said estate.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, P. J.
The claimant presented to the administrator a claim for $790 as a balance due for labor and services performed for the defendant between January 18, 1898, and February 10, 1903. Upon January 10, 1898, the intestate’s husband was afflicted with a shock of paralysis and died in May of the same year. At the time he was so afflicted the claimant was sent for by the intestate to come to her house and assist her. This she did and remained there until she was married upon the 10th of February, 1903, with a few intermissions. The services that she performed were domestic services and also in caring…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Crow v. . GleasonNew York Court of Appeals · 1894
- Greenwood v. JudsonAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1905