Lynch v. Rogers

The action on this appeal is in assumpsit by Christine Rogers against Charles Allan Lynch, administrator cum testamento annexo of the estate of William T. Garrison, decedent, for domestic services rendered by the plaintiff to the defendant’s testator during the latter’s lifetime. Trial was had after a joinder on the general issue pleas of non assumpsit and nil debet. The jury found for the plaintiff, and from the judgment entered on the verdict this appeal is taken.

The principal question is the exception taken by the defendant to the court’s refusal to grant his prayer directing a verdict in…