Long v. Long

This action is brought on a notarial act for the sum of eleven hundred dollars. The defendant resisted the claim, on the ground that he had received five hundred dollars only ; and he propounded interrogatories to the plaintiff, who admitted, in her answer, that she had paid that sum only, but stated that the balance was a remunatory donation made to her by the defendant, in consideration of the sacrifices she had made in leaving her home, at her own expense, in order to live with him, and that at the time that she paid him the five hundred dollars, she did so under the idea that he would add…