Land v. Automobile Finance Co.

Citations

• 73 Pa. Super. 116
• 1919 Pa. Super. LEXIS 184

Syllabus

<p>Bailments — Lease of automobile — Fraud—Case for jury.</p> <p>In an action to recover the amount paid on the purchase price of an automobile taken under a bailment lease, the case is for the jury and a verdict for the plaintiff will be sustained, where the testimony, if believed, was sufficient to establish fraud and collusion in the transactions surrounding the sale.</p> <p>Where the defendant in the guise of a money lender takes an assignment of a lease, reaffirms the promise of the original vendor, and acknowledges the receipt of part of the purchase price of an auto-truck, which subsequently proved defective, it is liable in damages to the vendee for the money actually received.</p>