Cloutier v. Devereaux

The appeal of the plaintiff brings up the question of whether the chancellor erred in refusing to order a rescission of a contract for the sale of an automobile for fraud.

The facts, as they, appear by the findings of the chancellor, so far as here involved, are as follows:

On June 30, 1923, the defendant Devereaux sold and delivered to the plaintiff the automobile in question for the sum of $400, taking in payment therefor the plaintiff’s conditional note for the amount of the purchase price ivith provision that the property was to be and remain Devereaux’s and subject to his control at all…