Mardis v. Ford Motor Credit Co.

The plaintiffs, Wayne and Jacqueline Mardis, appeal from a summary judgment for the defendant, Ford Motor Credit Company ("FMCC"), the assignee of a consumer credit contract signed by the Mardises when they purchased an automobile from Cloverleaf Lincoln-Mercury, Inc. ("Cloverleaf'). We affirm.

The evidence, viewed in the light most favorable to the Mardises, indicates that the Mardises purchased a used 1985 automobile from Cloverleaf based on representations from a salesman that the automobile was a 1986 model. The Mardises did not discover until approximately a year and a half later that…