Court Opinion

ID: 8288247
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-10-17 10:27:39.720312+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:43:46.660974
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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.