Case Name: MACK TRUCKS, INC. v. Harry M. EDGE, d/b/a Reliable Truck Service, et al.
Court: Louisiana Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1977-10-12
Citations: 352 So. 2d 709
Docket Number: No. 8373
Parties: MACK TRUCKS, INC. v. Harry M. EDGE, d/b/a Reliable Truck Service, et al.
Judges: Before REDMANN, GULOTTA and STOULIG, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 352
Pages: 709–710

Head Matter:
MACK TRUCKS, INC. v. Harry M. EDGE, d/b/a Reliable Truck Service, et al.
No. 8373.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.
Oct. 12, 1977.
Rehearing Denied Dec. 13, 1977.
Writ Refused Jan. 30, 1978.
Floyd J. Reed, Reed, Reed & D’Antonio, Metairie, for plaintiff-appellant.
Richard G. Steiner, Gretna, for defendant-appellee.
Before REDMANN, GULOTTA and STOULIG, JJ.

Opinion:
REDMANN, Judge.
The uncontradicted testimony and a "release" signed by the agent of Mack Financial Corporation (a corporate relation of plaintiff) and by defendant shows that the two mortgaged trucks were returned to plaintiff (through the financial corporation's agent) about two months prior to their judicial seizure by plaintiff. Also un-contradicted is defendant's and another witness's testimony that the financial corporation's agent promised that defendant would be released from further liability upon returning the trucks. We would therefore find plaintiff estopped from collecting the balance due, for the reasons of Int. Harv. Cred. Corp. v. Am. Troubleshooters, Inc., La.App. 4 Cir. 1976, 338 So.2d 708.
Plaintiff further argues, however, that the Motor Vehicle Certificate of Title law, at La.R.S. 32:705, requires transfer of a vehicle only by assignment on the reverse of the certificate of title, and therefore defendant cannot have effected a giving of the trucks in payment of the debt. We tend to agree; but giving in payment is not the theory of Int. Harv., supra.
Affirmed.