Willette v. Whitney

The evidence made it reasonable to find that the plain-riff did work for the defendant’s intestate as a housekeeper, not only under circumstances implying a promise to pay for it (Page v. Page, 73 N. H. 305), but also in consideration of an express oral agreement that if she survived him, she was to have his farm. The decedent’s failure to leave the farm to her by a will is urged as a bar to a recovery for the value of the services rendered. The law is otherwise. Howe v. Day, 58 N. H. 516.

In argument plaintiff’s counsel criticized the conduct of the defense for insinuating improper relations…