Gillett v. Camp
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Warren Circuit Coart. This was an action by Philo Gillett against Beverly Camp and Elvira Camp, his wife, to recover compensation for money paid and expenses incurred by him in the education and maintenance, before her marriage, of the defendant Mrs. Camp.
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Appeal from Warren Circuit Coart. This was an action by Philo Gillett against Beverly Camp and Elvira Camp, his wife, to recover compensation for money paid and expenses incurred by him in the education and maintenance, before her marriage, of the defendant Mrs. Camp. At the close of the evidence, the court at the instance of the defendants gave the following instructions: “ 1. If the jury believe that the plaintiff intermarried with the mother of Elvira Camp, and that she, being of tender years, was taken into the family of plaintiff and remained a member thereof from the time of said…
1Opinion of the CourtScott, Judge
This is a suit by a step-father for the expenses incurred in supporting and educating his wife’s child by a former husband. The old notion in England was, that, inasmuch as the widowed mother was bound to support her minor children, a man by marrying her assumed that with all her other obligations, and made himself liable for the support of her children by a former husband. There was no hardship in this, as at common law by the marriage all the wife’s goods became the property of her husband and he was entitled to all her earnings. Afterwards, the case of Tubb v. Harrison, 4 Term R. 118,…
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