Curry v. Lasell Seminary Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, to recover damages for an alleged breach of an agreement to furnish board and tuition to the daughter of the plaintiff. Trial in the Superior Court, before Blodgett, J., -who, at the close of the evidence offered by the plaintiff, directed a verdict for the defendant; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions, the nature of which appears in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
The plaintiff placed her daughter as a pupil in the boarding school of the defendant corporation, under a contract to leave her there to be boarded, instructed, aiid cared for through the school year. At the end of six weeks, on Saturday, the plaintiff asked that her daughter be permitted to spend the following Sunday and Monday with her, away from the school. Up to this time the daughter had already been allowed on application to the preceptress, to spend three Sundays with her mother since entering the school, and the plaintiff’s request on this occasion was denied. She insisted, took her…
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