Allis-Chalmers Corp. v. Sygitowicz

On September 10, 1971, Stanley Sygitowicz signed a retail installment contract with Northwest Roads, a division of Consolidated Equipment Sales, Inc., for the purchase of a new Allis-Chalmers HD-11B crawler tractor. The deferred payment price, including down payment, was $69,000.95. Northwest Roads immediately sold the financing papers to Allis-Chalmers Credit Corporation. Within a week after purchase, Sygitowicz complained to Northwest Roads about the tractor's excessive consumption of oil. He continued to make payments through July 1972, however, and used the tractor through that summer. In…