Legal Opinion
Rizzo v. Cunningham
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 12, 1939PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCox, J.
This is an action of contract brought to recover for personal services alleged to have been rendered from September, 1925, to January 19, 1932, to Rose E. O’Brien, the defendants’ testatrix, hereinafter referred to as Miss O’Brien. The case was tried to a jury on the second count of the plaintiff’s declaration, upon a quantum meruit for the alleged services. The defendants pleaded, among other things, the statute of frauds. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff which, on leave reserved, was set aside and a verdict for the defendants entered. The trial judge reported the case to this…
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