Case ID: ny-sup-ct_13/html/0658-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Smith, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

CHARLOTTE E. SULLIVAN, Respondent, v. JOHN C. SULLIVAN, Appellant.
    
      Wages — services rendered by merriber of family — Evidence.
    Where members of the same family live together, an express, distinct and well understood bargain to pay for board on the one side, or wages on the other, should be clearly proved before such a claim should be allowed. {B/Mnson v. Oushnian, 2 Denio, 152 ; Dye y. Kerr, 15 Barb., 444; Wilcox v. Wilcox, 48 id., 329; Shirty v. Vail, 38 How., 406; Williams v. Hutchinson, 3 Comst., 312.)
    
      Appeal from a judgment, entered on the report of a referee, in favor of plaintiff.
    
      Huger da Jenney, for appellant. Johnson <& Hoyt, for respondent.
   Opinion by

Smith, J.

Present — Mullin, P. J., Smith and Gilbert, JJ.

Judgment reversed, new trial granted, costs to abide event.