Conant v. Evans
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
ConteXct for $1,000, as described in the opinion. Writ in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston dated June 22, 1906. On appeal to the Superior Court the case was tried before Hardy, J. The action was brought to recover the compensation alleged to have been agreed upon for performing a surgical operation upon the defendant’s son.
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ConteXct for $1,000, as described in the opinion. Writ in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston dated June 22, 1906. On appeal to the Superior Court the case was tried before Hardy, J. The action was brought to recover the compensation alleged to have been agreed upon for performing a surgical operation upon the defendant’s son. The defendant admitted that the operation was performed at his request, and also admitted that he owed the plaintiff, after the operation had been performed, whatever the services were reasonably worth. The letters of the defendant to the plaintiff, referred to in…
1Opinion of the CourtMobton, J.
This is an action of contract to recover for services rendered in performing an operation at the defendant’s *37request on the defendant’s minor son. The declaration is in three counts, the first alleging that the defendant employed the plaintiff to perform an operation on the defendant’s son, which the plaintiff did, and that the defendant promised to pay the plaintiff the sum of $1,000 for his services, the second on an account annexed for services in operating on the defendant’s son at his request, and the third alleging, like the first, that the plaintiff performed the operation at the…
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