Rowe v. Carrey
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for breach of a promise of marriage. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Blodgett, J., the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff; and the defendant alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, C. J.
The defendant’s exceptions cannot be sustained.
1. The testimony of the witness Aldrich was rightly excluded. The fact that the plaintiff sent a message by Aldrich to the defendant did not make him her agent for any other purpose than to deliver the message. The conversation between him and the defendant, not within the scope of this limited agency, was incompetent. The question put by the defendant called for such conversation, and was rightly excluded.
2. Upon the hearing on the motion for a new trial, the Superior Court rightly ruled that the testimony of one juror was not admissible to show…
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