Oliver Farm Equipment Sales Co. v. French

GALLAGHER, Chief Justice.

This suit was instituted by appellee, Lewis French, against appellant, Oliver Farm Equipment Sales Company, to recover damages for the alleged wrongful seizure of a certain farm tractor and equipment under a contract provision for repossession thereof contained in a chattel mortgage. Appel-lee alleged that in the year 1930, he purchased from a dealer in Mart, Tex., the tractor and equipment involved herein for the sum of $1,460; that he paid cash therefor the sum of $1,250 and executed and delivered his note, due October 15, 1932, for the remainder of the purchase…