General Contract Purchase Corp. v. Dillman

Defendant purchased from Southern Cine Company, Inc., one Electrolux gas refrigerator for the price of $414.78, paying $37.50 cash and executed her note to the seller for the balance of $377.28, payable in 18 monthly installments of $20.96 each. This note was secured by chattel mortgage and vendor’s lien and privilege on the refrigerator, and in due course was acquired by plaintiff before maturity. The present suit was filed on the note coupled with foreclosure of the mortgage and lien securing its payment.

Defendant resists the suit by alleging that the refrigerator was defective when…