Turner v. Williams
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for money had and received by the defendant’s intestate to the use of the estate of the plaintiff’s testator, the declaration alleging that the defendant’s intestate procured from the plaintiff’s testator three life insurance policies from which she received $8,500 on October 7 and 14, 1895, and also procured real estate from him from the sale of which she received $4,000 on July 18,1899, and that she fraudulently concealed from the plaintiff’s testator and his…
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Contract for money had and received by the defendant’s intestate to the use of the estate of the plaintiff’s testator, the declaration alleging that the defendant’s intestate procured from the plaintiff’s testator three life insurance policies from which she received $8,500 on October 7 and 14, 1895, and also procured real estate from him from the sale of which she received $4,000 on July 18,1899, and that she fraudulently concealed from the plaintiff’s testator and his legal representatives the cause of action until within six years before the date of the writ. Writ dated January 16,1906.…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, J.
This is an action of contract to recover money alleged to have been had and received to the use of the estate of the plaintiff’s testator because obtained through the fraud of the defendant’s intestate. The fraud claimed was that the defendant’s intestate, under the name of Emma E. Ingalls, induced the plaintiff’s testator, Joseph Turner, to marry her and settle property upon her by falsely representing herself to be a single woman. There was evidence tending to show that the defendant’s intestate under the name of Emma E. Ingalls was from 1858 to 1870 the wife of Nelson N. Ingalls, living…
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