Tate v. LeMaster

Legge, Justice.

In an action to recover the sum of five hundred ($500.00) dollars paid by the plaintiff to the defendant in a transaction relating to the purchase and sale of real estate, plaintiff obtained a verdict for that amount, with interest; and the defendant appeals.

Except for (1) respondent’s check evidencing the payment, and (2) appellant’s receipt therefor, the transaction between the parties was verbal; and the evidence as to its terms was, to say the least, conflicting. It appears undisputed that appellant owned and resided on a tract of some twenty-three acres in Spartanburg…