Arnold v. Garst

This case comes up from the Court of Common Pleas on exceptions to an order of said court nonsuiting the plaintiff. The action is assumpsit for money had and received. In support of the action in the court below, the plaintiff submitted testimony to show that some time in 1880 the defendant purchased of one McCrillis a lot of land in South Providence, for which he paid a price of forty cents per square foot; that afterwards, representing to the plaintiff that the lot was larger than he ueeded for himself and that he wanted to have the plaintiff for a neighbor, he offered to sell the plaintiff…