domestic servants

domestic servants
Household employees rather than farm laborers or chauffeurs working outside. 57 Am J1st Wills § 1395. Servants who receive wages and stay in the house of the person paying and employing them for service to him or his family, such as valets, footmen, cooks, butlers and others who reside in the house. Cook v Dodge, 6 La Ann 275, 277.

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