Legal Opinion
Trafton v. Custeau
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided January 12, 1959PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRonan, J.
This is an action of contract in three counts upon an indebtedness originally arising out of a loan made by the plaintiff’s testate to the defendant. The case is here upon the plaintiff’s exceptions to the direction of verdicts for the defendant upon all three counts of the declaration.
The salient facts are these: On December 4, 1953, Archibald Fraser, the plaintiff’s testator, a man then seventy-five years of age but deceased since the trial (hereinafter called the plaintiff), lent the sum of $2,175 to the defendant with whom he had been on friendly terms for years and whom he treated "like…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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- Noble v. Mead-Morrison Manufacturing Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1921
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- Devine v. MurphyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1897
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