Ricci v. Cappelluzzi

This action in assumpsit was brought by the endorsee of a promissory note to recover a deficiency thereon. The case was heard by a justice of the superior court, sitting without a jury, who rendered a decision for the plaintiff in the amount of $2,835.49. The case is here on the defendant’s exceptions to that decision and to certain evidentiary rulings during the trial.

It appears from the record that on March 29, 1954 defendant executed a power of attorney, so called, wherein she made her now deceased husband, who was active in building, her attorney in fact. The instrument, in substance,…