Tri-Continental Leasing Corp. v. Law Office of Burns

OPINION

EVANS, Chief Justice.

Tri-Continental Leasing Corporation appeals from a take-nothing judgment entered against it in a suit to recover rentals allegedly due under a written lease of a copying machine. We affirm the trial court’s judgment.

The basic facts are undisputed. The ap-pellee, Richard W. Bums, was approached by an office equipment vendor, Business Equipment of Houston, Inc. in March 1982. The vendor’s salesman, Clint Enloe, represented to Bums that he had a copying machine worth $5,000 that he would sell for $4,200. Enloe told Bums that if he wanted to acquire the machine under a…