Kennedy v. Jacobson-Young, Inc.

HAMITER, Justice.

In this redhibitory action the plaintiff, John R. Kennedy, Jr., is seeking a rescission of the sale to him of a used 1957 Ford Sky-liner automobile, he alleging that the engine thereof was latently defective and that Jacobson-Young, Inc., the vendor and a defendant herein, refused to remedy the defect. The petition further recited that plaintiff, in making the purchase, paid $300 cash and gave his chattel mortgage note for $1931.52 payable in twenty-four monthly installments.

Named as a defendant also was the Associates Discount Corporation, it having acquired plaintiff’s note…