Taylor v. Heft
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Caroline J. Taylor, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the llth day of April, 1911, upon the verdict of a jury, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 10th day of May, 1911,. denying the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Clarke, J.:
The complaint alleged that between April 2, 1899, and August 8, 1903, the plaintiff, at the defendant’s request, furnished board and care of the defendant’s son Stanley, which was reasonably worth, and for which the defendant agreed to pay, the sum of $10,400.
The parties resided at Bridgeport, Conn. The plaintiff kept hoarders.
Stanley Heft was a young man twenty-six years of age. The plaintiff claimed that he was a victim of the morphine ■habit and she testified to the contract upon which she sued, as follows: “He [referring to the defendant] talked at length about their not being…
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