Legal Opinion

Ford Motor Credit Co. v. Mellor

Missouri Court of Appeals

Decided April 19, 1988No. 52768PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

CARL R. GAERTNER, Judge.

Following defendants’ default on an installment loan, plaintiff, Ford Motor Credit Company, sued for the deficiency remaining after repossession and sale of an automobile. Plaintiff appeals from an adverse judgment following a jury verdict in defendants’ favor. We reverse.

On June 18, 1979, defendants purchased a 1979 Mercury Cougar from Tom Smith Lincoln Mercury, Inc., and entered into an installment sales contract with the seller providing for forty-two monthly payments of $266.40. This contract was duly assigned to plaintiff Ford Motor Credit Company. In August,…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Bryant v. PrengerMissouri Court of Appeals · 1986
  2. General Motors Acceptance Corp. v. DieckmannMissouri Court of Appeals · 1984
  3. Applebaum v. Falco Leasing Co.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1969
  4. Fitzgerald v. Don Darr Ford, Inc.Missouri Court of Appeals · 1987

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. In the Matter of Pester Refining Company, a Kansas Corporation, Debtor (Three Cases). Pester Refining Company, and the Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago First Interstate Bank of Denver, N.A. And Bankers Trust Company, Intervenors Below v. Mapco Gas Products, Inc. And Mid-America Pipeline Company, Burke Energy Corporation, Unsecured Creditors Committee, Southern Union Refining Co., Inland Crude Purchasing Corp., Pester Refining Company, and the Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago First Interstate Bank of Denver, N.A. And Bankers Trust Company, Intervenors Below v. Mapco Gas Products, Inc., and Mid-America Pipeline Company, and Burke Energy Corporation, Unsecured Creditors Committee, Southern Union Refining Co., Inland Crude Purchasing Corp., Pester Refining Company, and the Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago First Interstate Bank of Denver, N.A. And Bankers Trust Company, Intervenors Below v. Mapco Gas Products, Inc. And Mid-America Pipeline Company, and Burke Energy Corporation, Unsecured Creditors Committee, Southern Union Refining Co., Inland Crude Purchasing Corp.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1988
  2. Grus v. PattonMissouri Court of Appeals · 1990
  3. Allen v. Rouse Toyota Jeep, Inc.Court of Appeals of North Carolina · 1990

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