Rumbos v. Singos

This is an appeal by plaintiff Senia Rumbos from a judgment entered on a directed verdict of no cause of action.

Plaintiff operated a restaurant in property she occupied as the tenant of defendants John Singos and Marian Singos, his wife. Her original declaration was in assumpsit on the common counts and for moneys had and received. She alleged that defendants, by fraud and duress, exacted $2,270 from her as a condition to the sale of her restaurant business and transfer of her lease to the buyer.

Defendants, by an oral motion at the opening of the trial and before a jury was impaneled,…