Baldwin v. Motor Inv. Co.

FUNDERBURK, Justice.

In this suit, brought by Motor Investment Company against M. A. Baldwin to recover upon a note given for a part of the purchase price of an automobile and to foreclose a chattel mortgage lien on the car, the defendant Baldwin asserted a cross-action wherein he sought to recover of the plaintiff damages in the sum of $444, based upon, the rental value of the car claimed to have resulted from his having been deprived of the possession and use thereof through a wrongful receivership. Alternative to the claim of damages based upon rental value of the car, he claimed damages in…