Freitas v. Cordeiro

This is an action to recover certain payments made upon a contract to purchase personal property after a rescission of said contract, based upon the minority of the plaintiffs. The two plaintiffs, together with one Bettencourt, who was not a minor, agreed to purchase from the defendant Cordeiro about 120 head of cattle, with some horses, hogs, poultry and certain farm machinery, for the sum of !$12,000. Five hundred dollars was paid in cash, of which each of the purchasers paid one-third, and the remainder was payable in installments. The purchasers used the property in operating a dairy.…