Cooperstein v. Shapiro

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Case, J.

This is an appeal from a decree in chancery directing the defendant to pay the complainant, in addition to costs and counsel fee, the sum of $7,168.75, that being the $5,000 named in the agreement presently set forth with interest thereon from the date of that agreement, less $300 conceded by the complainant to have been paid on account of interest. Defendant appeals.

The bill of complaint alleged that complainant “delivered” to the defendant the sum of $5,000 to be used by him “in a certain real estate investment” and received from him the…