145 Mass. 353
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided November 23, 1887
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1887-11-23
Contract, upon an account annexed, for services rendered to Samuel Graves, the defendant’s intestate.
Cited in Bouvier (1914)’s definition of “Barber”
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1887-11-23
Cited by 6 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1961
2 state decisions
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¶1It appears that Graves, the defendant’s intestate, was an old man, whose shoulder had been injured, and who could not well shave himself; and that the work of shaving him was done by the plaintiff, not in a public shop, but in the house of Graves. If Graves wished to be shaved on the Lord’s day in his own house, we cannot say, as matter of law, that it was not morally fit and proper that the plaintiff should shave him.
¶2Exceptions overruled.