Shawen v. District Motor Co.

RICHARDSON, Chief Judge.

Appellant was defendant in a suit for the unpaid balance of her installment note of $1041, representing part of the purchase price of a new 1941 Hudson taxicab. Plaintiff, appellee here, was the dealer and payee of the note. Trial was by jury.

*30Defendant testified that in February, 1941, when she made the purchase she traded in and received credit for a Hudson automobile she had driven as a taxicab for approximately 75,000 miles; that when she made this purchase, plaintiff’s representative told her the car had “withstood all road tests on the salt fiats of Utah” and was…