Superior Court of Rhode Island, 1929

Perry v. Feeney

Perry v. Feeney
Superior Court of Rhode Island · Decided March 21, 1929 · Blodgett
5 R.I. Dec. 99

Counsel

For plaintiff: Curran, Hart, Gainer & Carr., For defendant: Peter H. McKiernan,

Perry v. Feeney

Opinion of the Court

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.

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