Evangelista v. Antonio De Cubellis, Inc.

This action of assumpsit was tried in the superior court before a justice thereof sitting with a jury and resulted in a verdict for the plaintiffs for $1,000. Thereafter the trial justice denied the defendant’s motion for a new trial and the case is before this court on the latter’s bill of exceptions.

The plaintiffs sued to recover the sum of $1,000 which they contend was turned over to defendant as a down payment under an agreement to buy from it for $7,200 a certain lot of land with a small house thereon situated on Flower street in the city of Cranston in this state. The agreement,…