Schmetzer v. Broegler’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
May 1952
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Reynolds v. . Robinson · Stone v. Todd · Lee's Appeal from Commissioners · 10 N.J. Eq. 370 - Grandin v. Administrator of Reading
Most-quoted passages
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“It is not pretended that the services were voluntarily rendered as by a member of the household and without any promise to pay for them; on the contrary, all the evidence on the subject points to admissions made by the deceased more than once in the presence of outside witnesses that plaintiff was entitled to be paid for the services that she was rendering, and that she would be paid for them some time. If so, she had a claim clearly enforceable at law after his death unless it was satisfied by the legacy in question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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