MacDonald v. Stack

These are the plaintiff’s exceptions to the direction of verdicts for the defendant on the plaintiff’s opening statement to the jury.

The opening stated facts, within count 1 of the declaration, in part as follows: The parties are sisters. In 1942, while the sisters’ father was living with the defendant in Gloucester, the defendant took a new job in Salem and wished to move to Ipswich where her husband worked. She *710“wanted to get rid of father” and asked the plaintiff to take him. When the plaintiff objected that her husband’s earnings were small and they had four children, the defendant…