Newport Motor Sales, Inc. v. Bove Chevrolet Inc.

This is a bill in equity for a mandatory injunction and an award of damages. The suit was heard in the superior court on bill, answer and proof and resulted in the entry of a decree awarding the complainant damages in the sum of $1,200. From such decree the respondents appealed to this court.

The controversy between the parties arose out of a series of conditional sale transactions involving a 1951 Chevrolet car. In 1951 respondent Bove Chevrolet Incorporated, hereinafter referred to as Bove, sold the car for cash to Newport Cleansers, a corporation. In February 1952 that corporation .gave the…