Smith v. Gray Motor Co.

Taylor, C.

On May 15, 1924, plaintiff purchased a used automobile from the Gray Motor Company of Minneapolis for the sum of $1,475. He paid $500 on receiving the car and was to pay the remaining $975 in 12 equal monthly instalments. He claims that when he gave the motor company his check for the cash payment of $500, they presented a blank form as the instalment contract for the remaining payments which he signed without reading and in which none of the blanks had then been filled out. Two or three weeks later, the Mercantile Acceptance Company mailed him a notice from Chicago that they had…