Sherry v. Littlefield
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract against the administrator of the estate of Mary B. Welch, late of Danvers, who was the mother of the plaintiff, alleging that the defendant’s intestate induced the plaintiff to give up her usual and customary employment and to work for the intestate as housekeeper and nurse and promised to pay the plaintiff and to recompense her, according to an account annexed.
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Contract against the administrator of the estate of Mary B. Welch, late of Danvers, who was the mother of the plaintiff, alleging that the defendant’s intestate induced the plaintiff to give up her usual and customary employment and to work for the intestate as housekeeper and nurse and promised to pay the plaintiff and to recompense her, according to an account annexed. Writ dated February 18, 1915. In the Superior Court the case was tried before Quinn, J., upon an auditor’s report and oral evidence, as described in the opinion with the rulings of the judge thereon. At the close of the…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This is-an action of contract by a daughter to recover compensation for services rendered for care, nursing and housekeeping from the estate of her deceased mother. The. case was sent to an auditor, whose report was in favor of the defendant. The defendant moved for judgment in accordance with the audi*223tor’s report. “The counsel for the plaintiff objected and stated to the court that he had material testimony present, other and different from what he was able to secure at the hearing before the auditor, and that he desired the court to hear such testimony. The court thereupon stated that it…
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