Bell v. Lammon

McGHEE, Justice.

The appellee was given judgment for money paid to appellant as part of the purchase price of real estate and a package liquor store. We will refer to the parties as they appeared below.

The defendant was the owner of some lots and a building in Taiban, New Mexico, in which he operated a package liquor store under a state license. The plaintiff had worked as a liquor salesman for between four and five years for Ilfeld & Company, wholesale liquor dealers, and had later owned and operated a retail liquor establishment in Clovis, New Mexico. On June 1, 1945, he came to the…