Taylor v. Mechanics' Savings Bank
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity to enjoin the Mechanics’ Savings Bank in Worcester from paying to Sarah M. Rawson, and said Sarah from receiving, five hundred and fifty dollars deposited therein in her name by John Taylor, a minor son of the complainant.
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Bill in equity to enjoin the Mechanics’ Savings Bank in Worcester from paying to Sarah M. Rawson, and said Sarah from receiving, five hundred and fifty dollars deposited therein in her name by John Taylor, a minor son of the complainant. At the hearing, before Wells, J., by whom the case was reserved for determination by the full court, it appeared that John Taylor on July 8, 1864, being then less than nineteen years of age, enlisted as a soldier in the service of the United States for the term of three years, without the complainant’s consent or knowledge, and as a substitute for one Philip…
1Opinion of the CourtGray, J.
The money deposited in the bank by the minor, John Taylor, was not received by him as wages or compensation for services performed by him during minority, but in consideration of his voluntary enlistment into the military service of the United States, which he was not obliged by law, and could not have been compelled by his father, to enter into. It has already been decided by this court that a bounty paid by the national government, or by a state, city or town, to a child or apprentice, upon his enlisting into the military service of the United States, belongs to him, and not to his father…
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