Godburn v. Meserve

In this action based on an agreement by the plaintiffs to provide and care for the defendants’ decedent in her house in Stratford in consideration of her promise to leave the property to them by will, the jury rendered a verdict for the plaintiffs which, it was undisputed, was predicated upon the decedent’s breach of an express agreement alleged in the first count. There was a second count based on quantum meruit. The defendants have appealed from the court’s denial of their motion to set aside the verdict and from the judgment, assigning error in the court’s charge to the jury. In the view…