Downey v. Guilfoile
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover for services rendered and expenses incurred in the alleged care, support and maintenance of the defendant’s testator for many years, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Banks, J.; verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $7,250, and appeal by the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtBurpee, J.
The plaintiff is the daughter and only heir at law of the defendant’s testator. She alleged in her complaint that at her father’s request and on his promise to pay for them she rendered services and furnished money for him, and that in consideration of her services and expenditures her father promised her that he would not make any will, but would die intestate, so that all his property would pass to her as his only heir at law. Upon the defendant’s motion to make her complaint more specific, the plaintiff stated when her services were rendered and the promises to her were made. Without…
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