Ford Motor Co. v. Cullum

STRUM, District Judge.

Ford Motor Company sold to Dyke Cullum, its retail sales agent at Fort Worth, Tex., a'Lincoln automobile to be used as a demonstrator. The contract" of purchase was consummated at Detroit", Mich., where Cullum paid the purchase price, took delivery of the car, and personally drove it back to Texas. Mechanical defects developed in the car almost immediately, rendering it useless as a demonstrator, and substantially impairing its operating efficiency for ordinary use.

Ford Company, through its own agents at Dallas, several times attempted to remedy these defects, but…