Conant Automobile Co. v. Manriquez

We refer to the opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals (297 S. W. 623) for complete statement of the case.

Manriquez’s cause of action, it will be noted, is stated in these averments (with elaboration): (a) An agreement of the tenor named was made and left to rest in parol, (b) Acts were then done by him in supposed 'performance, viz. delivery of his secondhand car at the agreed price of $150 and deposit of various sums, all making up the amount sought to be recovered, (c) When the secondhand car was delivered he asked for or was tendered a paper represented to his as being, first, a “naked…