Case Name: TAYLOR against HUTCHINSON
Court: New Jersey Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New Jersey
Decision Date: 1812-05
Citations: 3 N.J.L. 953
Docket Number: 
Parties: TAYLOR against HUTCHINSON.
Judges: 
Reporter: New Jersey Law Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 508–509

Head Matter:
TAYLOR against HUTCHINSON.
ON CERTIORARI.
The action below, was brought by Hutchinson against Taylor. There was a declaration for meat, [693] drink, washing, lodging, clothing and other necessaries found and provided by Hutchinson, for one Israel Taylor, the infant son of the defendant below. From the case disclosed on the argument, it appeared that Taylor put his son to Hutchinson as an apprentice to learn the blacksmith’s trade; that the boy stayed with his master five or six years, and learnt his trade; he was not bound, but the father put him to Hutchinson until he was twenty-one years of age; that the boy left his master a year or eighteen months before he was of age. The action was brought for board and necessaries furnished the boy, while he lived with Hutchinson.

Opinion:
Kirkpatrick, C. J., and Pennington, J.
Were clearly of opinion that the action could not be sustained. The board, washing, &c. furnished the [*] boy, was furnished him as an apprentice, and while the boy was serving the master as an apprentice; that if he had any remedy against the father, it must be on the contract. It did not appear that the father contracted to pay the board of the boy, and the nature of the transaction repelled the idea.
lowing and Armstrong, for the plaintiff.
Wall and Hunter, for the defendant.
Rossell, J. — Doubted.
Judgment reversed.