Case Name: Matter of Shaper
Court: New York Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1874-12
Citations: 5 Thomp. & Cook 693
Docket Number: 
Parties: Matter of Shaper.
Judges: 
Reporter: Thompson & Cook's Supreme Court Reports
Volume: 5
Pages: 693–693

Head Matter:
Matter of Shaper.
Lunatic — when contract for necessaries hinds estate.
Where, after a committee of a lunatic had been appointed, the lunatic continued to live in his own house with his family as usual, and a grocer who did not know of the appointment of the committee, sold the lunatic groceries for his family to the amount of $258.67, and it was shown that the groceries were necessary for the lunatic, and were used in his family; held, that the grocer should he paid therefor out of the lunatic’s estate.
Appeal by petitioners from an order at special term, denying motion to confirm the report of a referee.
The petition was made by Charles Shaper and another, to have paid out of the estate of George E. Wing, a lunatic, a claim for groceries furnished to said lunatic after a committee of his estate had been appointed.
F. P. Bellamy, for appellant.
Abel Crook, for respondent.

Opinion:
Barnard, P. J.
The only point passed upon in the opinion is fully set forth in the head-note.
Order reversed.