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request an additional assistance check for $150,000.00.
In order to: 1) Pay off the remainder of my debts.
2) To live up to my obligation as required by Florida
state law to buy back damaged and dead plants from my
customers. 3) To put deposits on various groups of
plants from Thailand and Hawaii so that I will have
plants available to me when the final settlement occurs
and I can get back into business without further delay.
* * *
By letter dated February 4, 1992, Crawford sent Mr. Henry a
check dated February 2, 1992, in the amount of $150,000 ($150,000
assistance payment), which was issued by du Pont to Fred Henry's
Paradise of Orchids. That letter stated in pertinent part:
Enclosed is your advance assistance check that you
requested. Delivery of this check is predicated on our
agreement that you will deliver the signed Assistance
Receipt via regular mail as soon as possible to the
mailing address below.
Our investigation of your claim is still ongoing and I
will keep you advised on the progress of our evalua-
tion. * * *
On February 4, 1992, Mr. Henry signed the assistance receipt
for the $150,000 assistance payment. That assistance receipt
stated in pertinent part:
This will acknowledge that the undersigned has
* * * received One Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars
($150,000.00) from E. I. DuPont De Nemours & Company,
Inc. This payment represents assistance that I * * *
requested while E. I. DuPont De Nemours & Company
evaluates my * * * claim pertaining to:
Orchids
(DESCRIBE HERE THE CROP ON WHICH OUR PRODUCT WAS USED,
E. G., "ALL ORNAMENTAL BEDDING PLANTS, SHRUBS, TREES,
AG CROPS, ETC., OWNED BY OR UNDER PRODUCTION BY THE
UNDERSIGNED OR SAID FIRM TREATED WITH BENLATE 50 DF IN
1990 AND 1991).
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