Sonnek v. Universal CIT Credit Corporation

This is an appeal from a judgment of the district court of the eighth judicial district. The action involved two independent cases consolidated for trial because both grew out of the same set of facts.

On March 20, 1959, Marie Sonnek, hereinafter referred to as the buyer, on a trip from Helena to Lewistown, Montana, stopped in Great Falls. She noticed a small Goliath automobile, hereinafter referred to as first car, displayed on Ralph Merritt’s sales lot. The buyer gave Merritt, hereinafter referred to as the dealer, her Chrysler car at a value of $300 and $500 in cash as a down payment on the…