Officer v. Swindlehurst
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, Park Countyj Frank Henry, fudge. Suit by Kate M. Officer agaiust J. E. Swindlehurst and another. From a decree for plaintiff and from an order denying a new trial, defendants appeal. Services of a son or daughter, rendered while remaining in the father’s family after becoming of age without a contract for payment, are deemed gratuitous.
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Appeal from District Court, Park Countyj Frank Henry, fudge. Suit by Kate M. Officer agaiust J. E. Swindlehurst and another. From a decree for plaintiff and from an order denying a new trial, defendants appeal. Services of a son or daughter, rendered while remaining in the father’s family after becoming of age without a contract for payment, are deemed gratuitous. They will not even form a consideration which will protect a transfer of securities afterward made by the father to the child against claims of creditors. {Guffin v. First Nat. Bank, 74 111. 259.) Evidence that a daughter rendered…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Smith
The plaintiff in her complaint alleges: That she is the owner in fee and in possession of a certain lot, 50 feet wide and 150 feet deep, situated at Hunter’s Hot Springs, in Park county; that one W. C. Officer, formerly the owner of the lot, conveyed the same to her, for a valuable consideration, on the twenty-seventh day of June, 1902; that on December 1, 1904, a judgment for $2,913.58 was recovered in the district court of Park county, by the defendant Swindlehurst against said W. C. Officer, and thereafter, on June 26, 1905, an execution issued upon said judgment, and the defendant…
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