State ex rel. Florida Bar v. Graves

TERRELL, Acting Chief Justice.

May 22, 1959, Otis Gooden, of Fort Pierce, traded his 1952 Plymouth to Municipal Auto Sales, a used car dealer of Miami, Florida, for a 1952 Mercury. He paid the used car dealer, hereinafter referred to as the dealer, $100 in cash, balance to be financed. He left his Plymouth with the dealer and drove away with the Mercury. Gooden was unacceptable to the finance company, so when he returned, the dealer took the Mercury, kept Gooden’s Plymouth, the $100 in cash and left payment of the balance to Gooden.

June 10, 1959, Otis Gooden retained respondent to recover his…