Fenton v. Mansfield
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover for personal services rendered the defendants’ testatrix under an alleged agreement respecting compensation, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Case, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $5,830, and appeal by the defendants.
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Action to recover for personal services rendered the defendants’ testatrix under an alleged agreement respecting compensation, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Case, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $5,830, and appeal by the defendants. The complaint alleges, in substance, that from June 1st, 1891, to March 29th, 1906, the plaintiff was in the employ of the defendants’ testatrix, Lucy H. Boardman, as a confidential secretary, companion, and attendant; that on divers days they conferred regarding additional compensation for such…
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
There are but four reasons of appeal assigned in this case. They are: first, the denial of the defendants’ motion for a new trial, upon the ground that the verdict was against the evidence; second and third, the instruction given the jury by the language of those parts of the charge complained of, as above stated; and fourth, in admitting the question asked the witness Fields.
It appears from the evidence to have been undisputed that the plaintiff was to continue the services, for which she claimed Mrs. Boardman promised to pay her the additional $5,000, during the lives of Mrs. Boardman and…
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