Harding v. Ed Taussig Edsel Motors, Inc.

FRUGÉ, Judge.

Plaintiff brought this suit to avoid the sale of a 1958 Edsel convertible automobile and for the return of the purchase price paid therefor, alleging certain redhibitory vices as a cause of action. After trial on the merits the lower court rendered judgment rejecting plaintiff’s demands and dismissing his suit at his cost.

Article 2520 of LSA-C.C. defines redhibition to be the avoidance of a sale “on account of some vice or defect in the thing sold, which renders it either absolutely useless, or its use so inconvenient and imperfect, that it must be supposed that the buyer would…