Cupeiro v. Baron

SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

After a non-jury trial, the appellee Baron, an attorney, won a money judgment against a client, the appellant Cupeiro, for the breach of an alleged oral agreement under which Baron was to purchase an aircraft for $200,000 and lease it to Cupeiro for two years at a rental of $15,000 per month. At the end of the lease the plane was to be transferred to Cupeiro for a nominal sum. While Baron purchased the plane, Cupeiro did not make any of the allegedly required payments. After a single month of non-payment — during which Cupeiro never even saw, much less took possession of…