Weed v. Clark
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Action of assumpsit against the administrator of the estate of Herbert M. Clark, plaintiff alleging certain sums to be due for service rendered and money loaned decedent during his lifetime. Defendant filed plea of general issue. At close of the entire evidence, the court directed a verdict for defendant; to which ruling plaintiff filed exceptions. Judgment in accordance with opinion. Case stated in opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtDunn, J.
Defendant’s decedent, one Herbert M. Clark, lived in Holden. For not far from twenty-five years plaintiff was his housekeeper. The day before he died she left his home to go to Patten for a visit. On her way there, she directed a Bangor savings bank to draw out of her account and pay to him the sum of $150.00, which it did by check to his order. He deposited the check to his own credit in another bank. In usual course, this check was paid by the bank on which it was drawn. Some six months after her former employer’s death, plaintiff filed against his estate a claim for wages for her work, for…
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