Looney v. Saltonstall
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract upon an account annexed against the defendants as administrators with the will annexed of the estate of Susan B. Cabot for the making of various dresses for the testatrix. Writ dated December 16, 1909. The answer contained a general denial and an allegation of payment by the testatrix in her lifetime.
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Contract upon an account annexed against the defendants as administrators with the will annexed of the estate of Susan B. Cabot for the making of various dresses for the testatrix. Writ dated December 16, 1909. The answer contained a general denial and an allegation of payment by the testatrix in her lifetime. The defendant filed fifty-three interrogatories to the plaintiff, among which were groups of a similar character, each group referring to a different item in the account annexed to the declaration. These interrogatories were in substance as follows: “Did you do any work for Susan B.…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This case involves a construction of R. L. c. 173, § 57, as amended by St. 1909, c. 225, which substituted a new section, and which relates to interrogatories in civil actions.*
*72This amendment, although adverted to in Grebenstein v. Stone & Webster Engineering Co. 205 Mass. 431, 439, never has been interpreted. A comparison of the old with the new section reveals certain obvious and important changes. In the earlier statute parties were not quite on the same basis as to the time of filing interrogatories. The plaintiff could file them after the entry of the action, but the defendant could do…
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