Mason v. Gardner
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract on two alleged promissory notes described in tbe first paragraph of the opinion. Writ in the District Court of Western Hampden dated July 11, 1901. Oh appeal to the Superior Court the case was tried before Maynard, J., who, at the close of the plaintiff’s evidence, ordered a verdict for the defendant. The plaintiff alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtBarker, J.
The plaintiff’s mother and the plaintiff himself were distant relatives of the defendant’s testatrix. She died on Thursday, June 8, 1899, leaving a will, made some little time before, in which she had made no provision in favor of the plaintiff or his mother. On June 5 the testatrix signed her name to two instruments of that date, one of which promised to pay the plaintiff on demand after her demise the sum of $800, and the other of which contained a like promise to pay $500 to the plaintiff’s mother. Each instrument also concluded with these words, “ and I hereby charge my individual…
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