Shirley-Self Motor Co. v. Canon

SPEER, Justice.

Plaintiff Joe Canon sued M. D. Massey, Shirley-Self Motor Company, a corporation, J. C. Self, Emmett Rogers and Byron Tilton, to recover monies advanced and for the value of a secondhand automobile alleged to have been converted by the defendants, as a result of a deal between plaintiff and Massey for the purchase of a new Chrysler automobile from Massey as a local dealer, with knowledge that Massey could only furnish the new car through defendant Shirley-Self Motor Company, the wholesale distributors.

All defendants except Massey denied liability in any form, claiming that…