Rhoades v. Prudential Leasing Corporation

PHILLIPS, Chief Justice.

This suit was brought by appellee, Prudential Leasing Corporation, against appellant Miller Rhoades to recover damages for breach of a lease contract by which certain items of motor transportation equipment had been leased to Rhoades. Rhoades eventually filed a cross-action for money damages for alleged misrepresentations which he claimed induced him to enter into the transaction. With respect to Prudential’s action against Rhoades," a partial summary judgment was entered in Prudential’s' behalf on June 9, 1965, and final judgment in its behalf following subsequent…