Drummond v. Pillsbury

The plaintiffs in these actions declare in assumpsit on account annexed and the defendant pleads the general issue with a brief statement setting up the bar of the Statute of Frauds. The cases were tried together in the Superior Court and are brought here upon exceptions to the denial of the defendant’s motions for directed verdicts.

The testimony of the plaintiffs’ witnesses tends to prove that the defendant’s married daughter, Mrs. Beulah Wescott, became critically ill and her attending physician, Dr. L. S. Lombard, after consultation with the plaintiff, Joseph B. Drummond, a physician and…