Wharton v. Goddard

Woods, President :

This is an action by an undertaker on an alleged oral promise on the part of the defendant to be responsible for any expenses incurred in the burial of her deceased husband. The case was originally brought before a justice of the peace. An appeal was taken from a judgment for the plaintiff; and on the trial de novo a verdict was directed for the defendant. Plaintiff prosecutes error.

It appears that James R. Goddard died on November 24, 1932. On the day following, decedent’s widow, in company with two brothers-in-law, went to plaintiff’s establishment, for the purpose of…