Maine Candy & Products Co. v. Turgeon

An action to recover on an oral promise involving the payment of the debt of another. It was heard by the court below without a jury with right of exceptions reserved.

The case comes to this court on defendants’ exceptions to the admission and exclusion of certain evidence and to the refusal of the Justice below to make certain rulings requested by the defendants.

The case was tried by the defendants below and argued before this court upon the ground that the plaintiff in its declaration relied upon a special contract of novation, or a substitution by agreement of the defendants for the…