Bright v. Kelley

This appeal is from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff in an action of assumpsit brought in the Circuit Court for Dorchester County by Walter J. Kelley, ancillary administrator of the estate of Edward A. Kelley, late of the City of New York, deceased, against James G. Darden, of Cambridge, Maryland, to recover $25,000 alleged to have been loaned to the defendant by the plaintiff’s intestate.

The two men, Darden and Edward A. Kelley, were friends of long standing, a friendship which continued until Kelley’s death on May 31st, 1930. On August 19th, 1929, Arthur L. Cams, a New York stockbroker,…