Messier v. Messier
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Assumpsit. Heard on exceptions of both parties. Certain of exceptions of plaintiff, sustained. Defendant’s exceptions overruled.
1Opinion of the CourtJohnson, J.
This is an action of indebitatus assumpsit for work and labor brought by Hermenigile Messier of Warwick, in Kent County, against his mother, Cordelia C. Messier, of said Warwick. The action was brought July 10, 1909.
There is no dispute that for several years he had collected the rents from her property and paid therefrom the charges against the property and that she made a will in his favor in 1891 which she revoked in 1907 after leaving her son’s home and after going to the house of her daughter, Cordelia E. Rainville.
In 1907 a suit in equity was brought by Hermenigile Messier, this…
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