Voorhees v. Combs
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Error to the Mercer Circuit Court. The suit was brought by the plaintiff to recover of the defendants, executors of Doct. John H. Woodhull, deceased, compensation for alleged extra services rendered by the plaintiff in the testator’s lifetime. On the trial of the cause at the Mercer Circuit,-— Term, 1868, the court, upon the evidence offered by the plaintiff, directed a judgment of non-suit to be entered against her.
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Error to the Mercer Circuit Court. The suit was brought by the plaintiff to recover of the defendants, executors of Doct. John H. Woodhull, deceased, compensation for alleged extra services rendered by the plaintiff in the testator’s lifetime. On the trial of the cause at the Mercer Circuit,-— Term, 1868, the court, upon the evidence offered by the plaintiff, directed a judgment of non-suit to be entered against her. A bill of exceptions having been taken, and a writ of error brought to this court, the plaintiff assigned for error, that the court below erred in directing the said judgment of…
1Opinion of the CourtVan Syckel, J.
This action was instituted to recover of She defendants, as executors of Doct. Woodhull, compensation for alleged extra services, rendered by the plaintiff to the decedent in his lifetime.
The plaintiff was employed by Doct. Woodhull, in the year 1866, as his cook and housekeeper, at a stipulated monthly salary. She continued in that capacity, receiving her monthly wages, up to the time of the testator’s death, in January, 1867.
The plaintiff claimed that her labors were increased by reason of the sickness of the testator, contracted subsequent to her entering info his service, and it was…
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