Geo. O. Richardson Machinery Co. v. Nelson

Appellant sold a threshing machine to respondents and took a chattel mortgage on it and an old engine to secure notes given for the purchase price. The machine would not work satisfactorily. Whereupon respondents tendered it hack and de*231manded their notes and mortgage, claiming they had been induced to buy the machine through fraudulent representations. The vendor refused to take the machine back and brought this suit to foreclose the chattel mortgage and to obtain a deficiency judgment upon the notes. Vendees set up fraud in the sale of the machine to them. The jury found in their favor and…