Giguere v. Webber

This is an action of assumpsit upon an account annexed brought by the plaintiff, a funeral director in St. Georges in the Province of Quebec, against the defendant a resident of Augusta in the State of Maine. The entire action on which the suit is based took place in St. Georges. The plaintiff seeks to recover his charges for funeral services for the defendant’s uncle on an implied contract by the defendant to pay therefor. The case is before us on exceptions to the direction of a verdict for defendant at the close of the evidence.

Under Maine law such a contract is governed by the law of…