Weiss v. NORTHWEST ACCEPTANCE CORPORATION

The plaintiffs in these consolidated cases secured verdicts of approximately one million dollars against the defendant. The causes of action were based on fraud and the sales of property held as security in an alleged commercially unreasonable manner. Defendant appeals.

Fall Creek Gravel Co., Inc., is a corporation that built logging roads. The plaintiff Weiss is the president and sole stockholder. In the fall of 1969 the defendant, Northwest Acceptance Corporation, financed Fall Creek, including the acquisition of trucks by Fall Creek. Fall Creek acquired the trucks through Automotive…