Robinson v. Alger

WARD, Circuit Judge.

Robinson, the plaintiff below, brought this action to recover $4,000 (less $1,190.83 collected by attachment of defendant’s property) paid to the defendant below under the following circumstances: In February, 1907, the plaintiff was looking-

for a yacht for use at his country place on Fong Island during the following summer. The defendant owned the yacht Gypsy Joe, then lying at Detroit. The parties got into communication through one Jones, a broker. At the trial, the plaintiff being on the stand, a bill of sale executed by the defendant at Detroit February 2, 1907, was…