Welch v. Coleman

The Court has found that the plaintiff failed to perform his part of the contract and misappropriated $3,775 of the defendant’s funds in the course of their short and unhappy association. The gist of the defendant’s claim, as set forth in his brief, is that he, a naive newspaper man from New York City was completely bam boozled and swindled out of substantial sums of money by the native plaintiff. The Court’s findings support this claim and the record supports the findings. It abounds in correspondence between the parties and discloses evidence that the defendant became convinced, with the…