Chandler v. Baker

This is an action of contract tried before a justice of the Superior Court sitting without a jury. The ad damnum of the writ was originally $50,000, but after the entry of the action it was changed by permission of the court, on motion of the plaintiffs, first to $100,000, and afterwards to $200,000. The original declaration was in three counts, of which the first was on an account annexed for services rendered to Albert S. Bird, the defendant’s intestate, from October 1, 1897 to February 25, 1903; the second was on quantum meruit for labor performed and services rendered to the defendant’s *580in…