Spence v. Yocum

The District Court of the Eighteenth Judicial District, Gallatin County, entered a judgment September 3, 1981, holding that Don Yocum defrauded J. E. Spence. Yocum was ordered to pay Spence his actual damages, twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), together with interest thereon. Don Yocum now appeals that judgment.

Joe Spence is the baker for the Buttrey’s Food Store in Bozeman, Montana. For the three-year period prior to July, 1979, Spence frequently stopped at the Cat’s Paw Lounge on his way home from work. During those three years, Spence became familiar with defendant-appellant, Don…