Repollo

Plaintiff brought this action against the defendants to recover the sum of $3,650 alleged to have been loaned to defendants at their special instance and request. The ease was tried by the court sitting without a jury and judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff for the sum of $3,650, plus accrued interest and costs. Defendants have appealed from the judgment.

The record discloses that the $3,650 represented the cost of an additional room built on the appellants’ home in 1954 and paid for by respondent. At that time appellant Clemente Repollo was a member and an officer of the respondent, Filipino Federation of America, a corporation. During this period General Hilario C. Moneado was the president of the respondent corporation.

Prior to February 1954, General Moneado was in Stockton visiting appellants at their home. The home at that time consisted of six rooms. Living with appellants were their son and two nieces. Appellant Clemente Repollo testified, in effect, that General Moneado broached the subject of building an additional room onto appellants’ home in order for him to have a place to stay whenever he was in Stockton. Appellant also testified that General Moneado told…