Maitland v. Greer

Citations

• 8 Pa. Super. 461
• 1898 Pa. Super. LEXIS 78

Syllabus

<p>Family relationship — Wages—Contract—Province of court and jury.</p> <p>Where a person is received into a family as a member of such family and not as a servant, as an object of charity and not as a hireling, the relation is never changed by legal implication into a relation giving a right to wages.</p> <p>When, however, there is evidence tending to show a promise to pay claimant, “for all she did,” then the question of the relation which plaintiff and defendant sustained to each other becomes a question of fact which comes within the province of the jury.</p>