Christie v. Gmeiner

This is an appeal from a money judgment on a promissory note and from the dismissal of a cross-complaint for recovery, on the basis of an alleged failure of consideration, of payments made thereon.

The defendants (appellants), Gus F. Gmeiner and his wife, hereafter referred to in the singular, responded to an ad in a Spokane paper, which had been inserted by one Richard Thompson, relating to the sale of an exclusive franchise for a vending-machine business together with needed machines and merchandise therefor. These vending machines, called Notionette Merchandisers, were for the purpose of…