Case Name: Millis and wife, Appellants, vs. Thayer, Executor, Respondent
Court: Wisconsin Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Wisconsin
Decision Date: 1909-05-11
Citations: 139 Wis. 480
Docket Number: 
Parties: Millis and wife, Appellants, vs. Thayer, Executor, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Wisconsin Reports
Volume: 139
Pages: 480–480

Head Matter:
Millis and wife, Appellants, vs. Thayer, Executor, Respondent.
April 22—May 11, 1909.
Parent and child: Board of parent: Cause of action.
Where there is no express agreement by a father to pay for board furnished by his son, the latter cannot recover for such board.
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Walworth county: E. B. Belden, Circuit Judge.
Affirmed.
J. H. Page, for the appellants.
J as. G. Kestol, for the respondent Thayer, and Edwin T. Cass, guardian ad litem for Benny Millis, a minor.

Opinion:
Winslow, C. J.
This is an action brought by husband' and wife against the aged father of the husband to recover pay for board for about sixteen years, during which time the' father admittedly lived with his son. The action was tried before a referee, who found that no agreement ever was made-by the father to pay for his board, and therefore concluded that the complaint should be dismissed. Upon motion the-circuit court confirmed the referee's report and entered judgment of dismissal, from which the plaintiffs appeal.
Examination of the record shows that there was ample evidence to sustain the finding that no express agreement to pay for the board furnished was ever made. This fact being established, there can be no recovery, under principles now very well settled. Taylor v. Thieman, 132 Wis. 38, 111 N. W. 229.
By the Court. — Judgment affirmed.