McKenna v. Twombly
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two actions of contract respectively by Charles McKenna and Ellen E. McKenna, his wife, against the administrators of the estate of John McKenna, the deceased brother of-the plaintiff in the first action, each for attendance on and personal care and nursing of the defendants’ intestate day and night during his last illness for a period of three years.
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Two actions of contract respectively by Charles McKenna and Ellen E. McKenna, his wife, against the administrators of the estate of John McKenna, the deceased brother of-the plaintiff in the first action, each for attendance on and personal care and nursing of the defendants’ intestate day and night during his last illness for a period of three years. Writs dated May 15; 1908. In the Superior Court the cases were tried together before Hitchcock, J. The facts which could have been found upon the evidence in regard to the services rendered by the plaintiffs and the circumstances under which…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The defendants’1 intestate suffered from a complication of serious physical infirmities, which gradually increased until for quite a period preceding his death he became partially, and then wholly unable to care for himself. The plaintiffs, who were his brother and sister in law, at whose house he boarded and lodged during his sickness, appear to have been in constant attendance upon him, ministering to his daily and nightly needs, and doing what they could by way of nursing and kindly attention to alleviate his sufferings and so far as possible to provide for his comfort. It is not shown,…
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