Case Name: Rigg, Appellant, v. Blackburn
Court: Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1913-04-21
Citations: 53 Pa. Super. 302
Docket Number: Appeal, No. 224
Parties: Rigg, Appellant, v. Blackburn.
Judges: Before Rice, P. J., Henderson, Morrison, Orlady, Head and Porter, JJ.
Reporter: Pennsylvania Superior Court Reports
Volume: 53
Pages: 302–303

Head Matter:
Rigg, Appellant, v. Blackburn.
Contract — Boarding and nursing — Guaranty—Nonsuit.
In an action to recover for boarding, nursing, caring and washing for the defendant, a nonsuit is properly entered where the evidence shows that the services were rendered at the instance and request of defendant’s son, and that at the most the defendant had merely guaranteed the payment by her son, from whom no attempt had been made to recover.
Argued Nov. 20, 1912.
Appeal, No. 224, Oct. T., 1912, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. Chester Co., April T., 1911, No. 61, refusing to take off nonsuit in case of Anna M. Rigg v. Amanda Blackburn.
April 21, 1913:
Before Rice, P. J., Henderson, Morrison, Orlady, Head and Porter, JJ.
Affirmed.
Assumpsit for boarding, nursing and washing. Before Hemphill, P. J.
At the trial the court entered a compulsory nonsuit which it subsequently refused to take off.
Error assigned was the order of the court.
W. S. Harris, for appellant.
A. M. Holding, for appellee.

Opinion:
Opinion by
Orlady, J.,
The plaintiff brought suit to recover for boarding, nursing, caring and washing for the defendant, and for some additional meals furnished to other parties at the alleged instance and request of the defendant's son.
She failed totally in her proof, to establish any contract relation between herself and the defendant, and clearly showed by her own testimony that the contract on which she relied was made with another, who had personally agreed to pay for such service as was rendered, and that it was on the faith of that contract and promise that the boarding and services were furnished.
Taking it in its most favorable light, that the defendant guaranteed the payment of what wgs promised to be paid by her son, the action of the court below in entering a nonsuit was free from error, because there was no evidence that any attempt had been made to recover from the principal.
The assignment of error is overruled and the judgment is affirmed.