Phillips v. Phillips

Suit by an administrator on a promissory note for' two hundred dollars, dated November 21, 1889, signed by the defendants and running to the plaintiff’s intestate.

The defense claimed there was nothing due upon the note — that certain sums of money, amounting to two hundred and eighty-seven dollars, had been paid since the death of the intestate under such circumstances that the estate was liable to reimburse them therefor.

*325At the conclusion of the evidence, the presiding justice ruled that the evidence for the defendants did not establish a dótense, and directed a verdict for the amount of the…