Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court October 15, 1852 (Billings v. Billings)

By the Court.

This is a suit by a promisee of two small promissory notes, against the administratrix of the promisor. The defendant offered evidence to show, that Joseph Billings, the payee, and Lorenzo Billings, the promisor, were brothers, *182that their father was dead, and that Joseph was a minor, supporting h.mself and taking his own earnings.