Case Name: THE AMERICAN LAW BOOK COMPANY, a Corporation, Appellant, v. A. E. LATER, Respondent
Court: Idaho Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Idaho
Decision Date: 1927-05-14
Citations: 44 Idaho 290
Docket Number: No. 4666
Parties: THE AMERICAN LAW BOOK COMPANY, a Corporation, Appellant, v. A. E. LATER, Respondent.
Judges: Taylor and T. Bailey Lee, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Idaho Reports
Volume: 44
Pages: 290–292

Head Matter:
(No. 4666.
May 14, 1927.)
THE AMERICAN LAW BOOK COMPANY, a Corporation, Appellant, v. A. E. LATER, Respondent.
[256 Pac. 371.]
C. W. Morrison and W. H. Anderson, for Appellant.
F. A. McCall, for Respondent.

Opinion:
GIVENS, J.
Upon breach, by the purchaser, of a title-retaining contract of sale providing for instalment payments, prefaced by the agreement: "which I agree to take and to pay for as follows:" with the further agreement in case of default to return the property, the seller has two remedies; the collection of the remainder of the purchase price, or, second, the retaking of the property. (Pease v. Teller Corp., 22 Ida. 807, 128 Pac. 981; Thienes v. Francis, 69 Or. 171, 134 Pac. 1195, 138 Pac. 845; Manganese Steel Safe Co. v. First Nat. Bank, 25 S. D. 119, 125 N. W. 572; Sioux Falls Adjustment Co. v. Aikens, 32 S. D. 154, 142 N. W. 651; Mortensen Woodworking Co. v. Raabe, 171 N. Y. Supp. 128. See, also, Arthur E. Guth Piano Co. v. Adams, 114 Me. 390, 96 Atl. 722.) The appellant plead and made a prima facie case undér the first alternative remedy and the trial court therefore erroneously entered a nonsuit in favor of the purchaser.
The judgment is ordered reversed and the cause remanded. Costs awarded to appellant.
Taylor and T. Bailey Lee, JJ., concur.