General Finance & Thrift Corp. v. Guthrie

Civil action for the possession of an automobile, claimed under a conditional sale agreement executed in the State of Georgia.

The material facts were these: Charles M. York, then 17 years of age, had been for several months a resident of and employed in the city of Augusta, Georgia. There he purchased an automobile from one McKnight and in part payment executed note and conditional sale agreement in the sum of $709.25, payable in monthly installments, which papers McKnight immediately endorsed and transferred to the plaintiff, a Georgia corporation. These transactions occurred 30 May, 1946.…