Wunsch v. Boldt
Wunsch v. Boldt
Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
§ 50. Contract; acceptance of work done under; money paid not recoverable when; case stated. Appellee, Boldt, brought this suit originally in justice’s court, to recover back from Wunsch a sum of money which he had paid Wuncsch upon a contract between the parties by which Wunsch was to bore a well for W. Boldt. The agreement between plaintiff and defendant was that, if plaintiff was satisfied with the supply of water found at a depth of one hundred and fifty feet, then defendant would not charge plaintiff for the additional forty feet which he had bored, but would stop boring, turn the
The court erred in not giving the jury the following instructions asked by the defendant, to wit: “If the jury believe from the evidence in this case that the plaintiff expressed himself as satisfied with the well dug by defendant, and accepted the same at the time the test was made of its capacity, they must find for defendant,” etc. Another principle of law well settled, and which should have been submitted under the facts of this cage, is that “if a party, with full knowledge of all the facts, pays in satisfaction of a demand made upon him, he cannot afterwards allege such payment to have been unjustly demanded, and recover back the money.” [7 Wait’s Act. & Def., pp. 402, 403; Broom, Leg. Max. (8th ed.), p. 271.]
Reversed and remanded.
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