Allen v. Foster

HOGAN, Judge.

This is an action to recover part of the purchase money paid on a contract to buy and sell realty. The case arose out of a business deal gone sour and in consequence the record is replete with equivocation and contradiction. The issues tendered were vigorously and hotly contested. Our sketch of the background facts is limited to that recital essential to an orderly disposition of the appeal and does not purport to state all possible inferences and deductions which might be drawn from the record.

In November 1979, defendant James Foster earned his livelihood by constructing and…