Bouche v. Michel

The plaintiff is appellant from a judgment which ■discharges the defendant from the plaintiff’s claim for $372, alleged to have been loaned by the former to the defendant’s testator.

The claim was resisted on the allegation that the sum paid by the plaintiff to the deceased, was not loaned, but paid as an .earnest, on a bargain between the plaintiff and the latter, for the purchase of a half lot of ground which the plaintiff desired to acquire. ,

The court sustained the defence and gave judgment for the ■defendant, and the plaintiff appealed.

The following disclosures were drawn from the…