Case ID: thomp-cook_5/html/0711-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Mullin, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Cooper v. Turner.
    
      Services—when son not liable to mother for.
    
    A widow resided with her son, and kept house for him, without any agreement for wages. Held, that the law would not imply an agreement to pay wages.
    Appeal by Mary Turner, sister and heir at.law of William Cooper, deceased, from a decree of the surrogate of Erie county, allowing a claim of Betsey Cooper, mother of deceased, against his estate for services, moneys had and received, and rent.
    
      William C. Johnson, for appellant.
    
      Humphrey & Lockwood, for respondent.
   Mullin, P. J.

The only portion of the opinion believed to be important for publication‘is the following :

“ It appears by the evidence returned by the surrogate that the intestate was a single man, and his mother who was a widow resided with him and kept house for him, without any agreement for wages. Under the circumstances it seems to me the law will not imply an agreement to pay wages. Had he lived with her and rendered services no agreement for wages would be implied, and I conceive no reason why it should be implied in her favor.”

Rehearing ordered.