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Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

NEW HAVEN COUNTY,
    AUGUST TERM, A. D. 1784.
    Ives v. Gilbert, Executor to Dorman.
    A promise to pay for boarding a son two years, not within the Statute of Frauds, etc.
    Action of assumpsit, upon a parol promise made by said Dorman in his lifetime, to pay the plaintiff for hoarding his son two years; while lie should live with the plaintiff, as an apprentice, to learn the practice of physic; and avers that he boarded said son two years as aforesaid, and that he had never been paid, etc.
    The defendant plead in bar •— The Statute against Frauds and Perjuries, and averred, that said promise was not to be performed within one year from the making’ of it; and that there was no note or memorandum made of said promise in writing.
   The plaintiff demurred to the plea in bar — And the judgment of the court was, that the plea in bar is insufficient: For the consideration had continuance to the end of the two years;, and it is a contract executed on the part of the plaintiff, and so not within the statute.