Legal Opinion
Block v. Ford Motor Credit Company
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided January 17, 1972No. 5952PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FICKLING, Associate Judge.
This case raises the question of the validity of a waiver of defense clause in a retail installment contract executed and to be performed in the State of Maryland. Summary judgment was granted Ford Motor Credit Company (hereinafter FMCC) from which cross-appeals were filed. We affirm.
In January 1969 Mr. A. Harvey Block purchased a new Ford automobile from a Ford dealer in Baltimore, Maryland. On the day of purchase, Block signed a retail installment contract in the principal amount of $4,077.36, which provided for 36 consecutive monthly installments of $113.26,…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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- Unico v. OwenSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1967
- A-Z Servicenter, Inc. v. SegallMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1956
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3Cited by14 opinions
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