47 Barb. 521 | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | 1867
The action was brought to recover compensation for labor and services of the plaintiff, rendered to and for the use, and at the request, of the defendant’s intestate. It appeared upon the trial, at the Livingston circuit, in January, 1866, that the plaintiff was the daughter of the intestate, and from her infancy until her marriage, in June, 1860, she lived with her father, the intestate, as a mem-* ber of his family. That she became twenty-one years old in September, 1839. That her father died in September, 1863. She claimed for services, &c. from the time she became twenty-one years old to the time of her marriage, a period of about twenty-one years.
In the case before us, the plaintiff gave evidence which the jury would have a right to regard as tending to prove a mutual understanding, that the plaintiff was to be paid for her services, while at the same time they might put a different construction upon it. This was for the jury to decide, and it was put to them in that light by the judge, in his instructions to them, at the close of the evidence.
•The charge to the jury was full, and perfectly fair to the defendant as well as to the plaintiff, and embraced every aspect of the case, and contained, as I think, a correct statement of the law on the subject, in general and in detail.
I have considered the exceptions taken by the defendant to the rulings upon the trial and to the charge to the jury, and do not perceive any error in either of them.
The evidence from which to imply a contract on the part of the intestate to pay for the services in question was quite
For the. foregoing reasons I think a new trial should be denied.
Ordered accordingly.
Welles, E. D. Smith and Johnson, Justices.]