Clancy v. Reid-Ward Motor Co.

This is a suit wherein Joe T. Clancy, plaintiff, sought actual and punitive damages against Reid-Ward Motor Company, a corporation, defendant, based on fraud in the sale of a used automobile by it to plaintiff. Verdict and judgment were for plaintiff and defendant appeals.

There was substantial evidence from which the jury could find that when the automobile, a 1938, Packard Club coupe, was shown and demonstrated to plaintiff by defendant's agents the speedometer registered 25,000 miles; that plaintiff asked if that was the correct mileage and defendant's agents assured him that it was, just…