Hyde v. Leisenring
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Eaton; Smith, J. Assumpsit by Rufus J. Hyde against John W. Leisenring for medical services rendered to defendant’s infant child. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant brings error. The facts found by the trial court in this case are as follows: “First.
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Error to Eaton; Smith, J. Assumpsit by Rufus J. Hyde against John W. Leisenring for medical services rendered to defendant’s infant child. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant brings error. The facts found by the trial court in this case are as follows: “First. That plaintiff is a physician residing at Eaton Rapids, Mich., and in the month of November, 1890, and the months of January, March, April, May, and August, 1891, made professional visits to defendant’s infant child; that the child was very dangerously and seriously sick, and the much greater number of these visits were made in the…
1Opinion of the CourtGrant, J.
(after stating the facts). 1. No creditor can complain of a husband, or bind him for necessaries on the ground of an implied contract, where the wife herself could not. Crittenden v. Schermerhorn, 39 Mich. 666. Persons trusting a wife, living separate and apart from her husband, upon his credit, do so at their own peril. Gill v. Read, 5 R. I. 345; Bennett v. O’Fallon, 2 Mo. 57. The home, which the father, and husband has furnished, is the place in which the law gives him the right to provide for his wife and children. When he has done this, and is ready and willing there to provide for them,…
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- Bauman v. BaumanSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1857
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