Vela v. Slavich

REGAN, Judge.

This suit was instituted by John Vela to recover the sum of $6,500.00 which he asserts was lent to the defendant, Mario Slavich, on May 11, 1959. When this case was tried in the lower court, plaintiff was dead and, therefore, Peter Vela, the executor of his estate, was substituted for him as party plaintiff.

Defendant answered and insisted that the transaction of May 11, 1959, was a donation inter vivos of $6,500.00 accompanied by manual delivery thereof to him. In the alternative, the defendant pleaded the extinction of his indebtedness to plaintiff by compensation, predicating…