Powell Motor Co. v. A Christina & Bros.

ON THE MERITS.

JONES, J.

On the afternoon of November 15, 1922, after banking hours, the plaintiff sold and delivered in Vicksburg, Mississippi, a Ford automobile, with, accessories, for the price and sum of five hundred nineteen and 55-100 ($519.55) dollars, to a man representing himself as Pat Murphy of Red Lick, Mississippi, a small town near Fayette, Mississippi. Murphy said he was a road contractor in Claiborne County, Mississippi; was going to Fayette that night and would return to Vicksburg in a day or two for further equipment. In payment for the automobile, Pat Murphy gave the…