Dawson v. Fox

HOOD, Associate Judge.

Plaintiff purchased from defendant a motor scooter, paying therefor $336.35. Approximately three weeks after its purchase the scooter was stolen from in front of plaintiff’s home and has never been recovered. Thereafter plaintiff, through his mother as next friend, brought this action .to recover the purchase price on the ground that at the time of the purchase and at the time suit was filed he was an infant. He obtained judgment for the full purchase price, and defendant has appealed.

Plaintiff was a little over nineteen years of age when he purchased the scooter. The…