Commercial Credit Co. v. Anthony

The plaintiff sued on a note given for the purchase-price of an automobile on terms embodied in a retention-of-title contract. The contract recited: “Cash on or before delivery $400. Allowance on car traded in $220.” It was further recited in the contract that there-was a note given (the one here sued upon) payable in sixteen equal monthly installments of $76 each, commencing one month from the date thereof. The defendant filed the following plea (after denying or admitting the paragraphs of the petition) : “Por further answeT to said petition this defendant says: that he purchased from…