French v. Peters
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed June 12, 1895, against W. Scott Peters, administrator of the estate of Franklin Peaslee, Harriet C. Patch and the Second National Bank of Haverhill, alleging that on the first day of May, 1893, Franklin Peaslee above named, in consideration of existing indebtedness from him to the plaintiff for board and care and of an undertaking by the plaintiff to take care of and provide for him during the remainder of his life in the family of the plaintiff and to…
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Bill in equity, filed June 12, 1895, against W. Scott Peters, administrator of the estate of Franklin Peaslee, Harriet C. Patch and the Second National Bank of Haverhill, alleging that on the first day of May, 1893, Franklin Peaslee above named, in consideration of existing indebtedness from him to the plaintiff for board and care and of an undertaking by the plaintiff to take care of and provide for him during the remainder of his life in the family of the plaintiff and to provide suitable burial at his decease, agreed to give to the plaintiff all the property of which he was possessed,…
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
This suit in equity was begun on June 12, 1895, by a writ in which Harriet C. Patch was joined as defendant with Peters, administrator of the estate of Peaslee, and with the Second National Bank of Haverhill. The relief sought was in substance to compel the payment to the plaintiff of a non-negotiable promissory note given by the defendant Patch to the intestate Peaslee in 1889, and also of a deposit of his in the defendant bank, both the note** and the deposit book having been delivered to the plaintiff by Peaslee in his lifetime in consideration of services rendered to him and in pursuance…
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