Wardrobe

Plaintiff sued to recover the reasonable value of the services of his minor sons, Edward and Raymond, aged nineteen and seventeen years, respectively. Judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiff against defendant Charles A. Miller, and the latter appeals from the judgment and from the order denying his motion for a new trial. Plaintiff was formerly the husband of defendant Mrs. Charles A. Miller. They were divorced about May 20, 1908. The care, custody, and control of Edward and Raymond and their sister, two years younger than Raymond, were awarded in the decree to the plaintiff herein. The father kept the three children in the Children’s Home at Stockton for five years and thereafter until the twenty-third day of January, 1919, they lived with him and attended the public schools. The boys worked during vacation and at other times for their father and for strangers, the father collecting their wages and supporting them. On January 23, 1919, the plaintiff and his children engaged in a quarrel of such nature that the father and Edward came to blows, whereupon the .children left, arriving at the home of defendants late at night, ten or twelve miles from the plaintiff’s residence.…