Carton v. Shea

This action of contract was brought in the Superior Court to recover, on an account annexed, for the plaintiff’s services as undertaker and for supplies and moneys advanced by him in connection with the burial of one William Kane, a cousin of the defendant. The case was tried before the judge sitting without a jury. The judge found for the plaintiff, and the case now comes before us on the defendant’s exceptions to the denial of two of her requests for rulings.

The evidence in its aspects most favorable to the plaintiff would warrant findings of the following facts: In December, 1938, the…