LEGAL DOCUMENT

Case: Mary Perry vs. Patrick Feeney, Ex'r
Citation: 5 R.I. Dec. 99
Court: Rhode Island Superior Court
Jurisdiction: Rhode Island
Decision Date: 1929-03-21
Docket Number: No. 61053
Pages: 99–99
Volume: 5
Reporter: Rhode Island Decisions

Parties: Mary Perry vs. Patrick Feeney, Ex’r.

Mary Perry vs. Patrick Feeney, Ex’r.
No. 61053.
March 21, 1929.
For plaintiff: Curran, Hart, Gainer & Carr.
For defendant: Peter H. McKiernan,

BLODGETT, J.
Heard upon motion of defendant for a new trial after verdict of a jury for plaintiff for $1,600.
Action against executor for services to deceased testator and to Mrs. Bushnell, deceased wife of testator.
The defence was that deceased was a man who always paid his bills when same were due, and that deceased, when sick in a hospital, declared he owed nobody anything and that from time to time money had been paid plaintiff.
This defence is familiar under the present statute relative to statements of a .deceased person during his lifetime, but is negative testimony opposed to positive by plaintiff and her witnesses.
Motion denied.