HOLLISTER v. OLD COLONY TRUST CO.


328 Mass. 225 (1952)

102 N.E.2d 770

LOUISE S. HOLLISTER vs. OLD COLONY TRUST COMPANY, executor.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

November 8, 1951.

January 4, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. Juggins, (A.M. Lyon & R.R. Clark with him,) for the defendant.

H.A. Reynolds, for the plaintiff.

Present: QUA, C.J., LUMMUS, RONAN, SPALDING, & COUNIHAN, JJ.


SPALDING, J.

This is an action of contract to recover for personal services rendered to the defendant's testatrix from 1928 until her death in 1948. The declaration contained three counts; in the first the plaintiff asked compensation for the fair value of her services; the second was on an account annexed; the third was waived at the trial. The defendant pleaded, among other things, payment, the statute of frauds, the statute of limitations, and that the plaintiff...

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