Hatfield's Estate
Citations
- 50 Pa. Super. 450
- 1912 Pa. Super. LEXIS 73
Syllabus
<p>Decedents’ estates — Claim for services — Housekeeper—Domestic service — Family relation — Presumption of payment.</p> <p>A claim against a decedent’s estate for services as housekeeper will not be sustained where it appears that there was no express contract to pay for such services, that the claimant was a sister-in-law of the decedent, and that she lived in the family of the decedent and performed the ordinary services of a domestic in the household. The presumption of payment of the wages of domestics at stated periods is applicable to such a case.</p>
How courts have described this case
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- holding that a habeas court could intervene to stop the transfer of slaves where “there [was] no law which [would] warrant ... their fore ible detention or forcible removal”
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Judges: Bice, Head, Henderson, Mokkison, Morrison, Orlady, Porter
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