Skillings v. Collins

About the first of April, 1913, the plaintiff Skillings in exchange sold to the defendant Collins, acting through one Clapp, a Premier Roadster automobile for the agreed price of $2,000. Howard v. Harris, 8 Allen, 297, 299. Carey v. Guillow, 105 Mass. 18. Commonwealth v. Abrams, 150 Mass. 393. As a part of the same transaction, Clapp, acting for Collins, sold to Skillings a Chadwick automobile for the price of $3,000. Clapp received for the contract price $500 in cash, $500 in notes and $2,000 as the value and agreed price of the Premier Roadster automobile sold to Collins. The first of these…