Schrader v. Beatty

Citations

• 206 Pa. 184
• 55 A. 958
• 1903 Pa. LEXIS 672

Syllabus

<p>Master and servant — Payment—-Presumption—Housekeeper.</p> <p>The rule that there is a presumption that domestics are regularly paid, weekly, biweekly or monthly, according to the custom of the locality in which they render services to their employers, has no application when the head of the house assumes relations of intimacy with his servant, and takes a girl employed by him out riding, and by what he says and does indicates an intention to marry her. In such a case, the strict rule applicable to purely business relations cannot be invoked by the master, for the intimacy of his personal relations with his servant necessarily involves him in laxity in his business relations with her.</p>