Fuller v. Mowry

Matteson, O. J.

This is assumpsit to recover for the services of the plaintiff in the care of, nursing, and attendance on, Mrs. Emily M. Hill, deceased, on whose estate the defendant is administrator de bonis non, with the will annexed. The trial below resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff. The defendant now petitions for a new trial on the grounds that the verdict is against the evidence and that the court erred in its rulings.

The testimony shows that the deceased, who was of unsound mind, was taken by her guardian, in the latter part of 1883, from the insane hospital in Worcester,…