Smith v. Hempen

The plaintiff, A. L. Smith, of Grant Parish, who was a minor above the age of eighteen years but representing himself as a major, entered into a contract with defendant, J. H. Hempen, of Rapides parish, under which it was agreed that plaintiff, who was the owner of a Ford car on which there was a chattel mortgage of one hundred dollars, would deliver the Ford car to defendant, who would assume and pay the chattel mortgage, and defendant agreed to deliver to plaintiff a Star car and plaintiff in turn to give one note for four hundred eighty-eight and 76/100 dollars, payable in twelve monthly…