Commercial Securities, Inc. v. Mast

This action was brought by Commercial Securities, Inc., a corporation, against the defendant, R. H. Mast, to recover the sum of $291.92, as damages for the destruction of a 1929 Pontiac coupe by the defendant, on which motor vehicle the plaintiff had a past-due chattel mortgage.

On May 16, 1931, one George Bundy Wasson, for a valuable consideration, executed and delivered to the plaintiff his note for the sum of $350.30, payable in monthly instalments of $29.19 each, beginning on June 15,1931. At the time the Pontiac coupe was destroyed, on November 23, 1931, in a collision due to the…