Manhattan Taxi Service Corp. v. Checker Cab Manufacturing Corp.

The plaintiff in July and August, 1923, bought thirteen taxicabs from-the defendant Checker Cab Manufacturing Corporation. The purchase price of each cab was $2,892, of which $723 was in cash, the balance of $2,169 being payable by a series of promissory notes due monthly secured by a conditional bill of sale which provided that title to the cabs should remain in the seller until the notes were paid. A single taxicab was later sold to plaintiff on the same terms, making fourteen in all. In November, 1923, the Checker Company sold the plaintiff’s promissory notes to the defendant Hugo Hoffmann…