4 Day 57 | Conn. | 1809
This case depends on the construction of the second section of the act relatil% to masters and servants or apprentices, which is as follows : “ That no person under the government of a parent, guardian or master, shall be capable to make any contract or bargain, which in the law shall be accounted valid, unless the said person be authorized or allowed so to contract, by his or her parent, guardian or master; in which case such parent, guardian or master shall be bound thereby.
In respect to the other part of the statute, the manifest intent is to render parents, guardians, and masters personally liable, where they authorize and allow infants under their care to make contracts, instead of making
o) Slat. Conn. tit. 107. s. 2.