Stark & Son v. Licastro

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, J.

The suit arises out of the conditional sale of a gas range by plaintiff-appellant to defendant-respondent. The purchaser defaulted in the payments and the seller re-took the property. There was an unpaid balance of $127.14 which was more than fifty per cent, of the purchase price. The case was therefore within R. S. 46 :32-26, originally enacted in this state as section 20 of the Uniform Conditional Sales Act, first appearing in our statutes as chapter 210 of Pamph. L. 1919, § 20, being at p. 468.

The cases covered by section 19, i. e., where…