Greenwood v. Judson
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Edward B. Judson, as administrator, etc., of Myron C. Merriman, deceased, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Onondaga on the 12th day of October, 1904, upon the report of a referee. of a jury for $600, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 18th day of April, 1905, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Spring, J.:
The plaintiff had be4en for fourteen years a country, schoolteacher, receiving eight dollars per week. She was the niece of Myron C. Merriman, who was a man of intelligence, possessing considerable property, but very deaf and somewhat eccentric. He needed some one to assist him in his business transactions and importuned the -plaintiff to cease her school teaching and come into his service. She finally in 1884 assented to his request, and, until his death, March 29, 1902, at the age- of eighty-three years, she remained with him almost constantly. During that period she wás…
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