Beston v. Amadon
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, to recover the price of bricks used in building a greenhouse on land of the defendant. Trial in the Superior Court, before Bond, J., who directed the jury to return a verdict for the defendant; and the plaintiffs alleged exceptions. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, J.
The bricks were ordered by one Cartter, the defendant’s son in law. At the trial a verdict was directed for the defendant, we presume on the ground that there was no evidence that the defendant’s son in law was her agent.
The defendant, her husband, her daughter, and her son in law lived together on the place where the greenhouse was put up. The defendant’s evidence was that Cartter hired the farm at fifty dollars a month under some oral arrangement, but even this precarious tenure seems not to have been admitted by the plaintiffs. In April or May, 1895, Cartter began the greenhouse, having…
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