SCA 1597/2019 issued on 17/07/2019
This case involved a failure to pay a business investor. The defendant admitted the amount was owed but claimed he could not pay because he was insolvent.
A key point was he had failed to provide evidence of insolvency or taken the oath.
Background
A claimant filed a case against a defendant before the court. He requested the court to order the defendant to pay him 100000 Riyals. He said that he had paid an amount of money to the defendant in order to invest it and that the defendant still owed him the mentioned amount.
The defendant admitted that he owed the mentioned amount to the claimant but he said that he was unable to pay it right now due to insolvency.
Decision
The court said that the defendant had already admitted that he owed the mentioned amount to the claimant. The court said that the defendant, however, had failed to prove that he was unable to pay due to insolvency. The court said that the defendant had also refused to take the oath in order to prove his claims.
The court ruled that the defendant should pay the claimant the the amount.