Court Opinion

ID: 3407343
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 19:23:30.524962+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:47:57.931212
License: Public Domain

The exclusion of certain warranties or covenants made by the terms of a written contract of sale of personal property, unless such warranties or covenants are written in the contract, is binding only where the parties seek to assert their rights under the contract. The purchaser, however, notwithstanding any provision in the contract which would prevent setting up fraud as a *Page 529 
defense, may, after discovering the fraud, rescind the contract on the ground of the fraud of the seller in inducing him to execute the contract. In so doing, however, the purchaser must repudiate the contract by restoring or offering to restore, within a reasonable time after the discovery of the fraud, the property which he obtained from the seller, and he would then be entitled to a return of what he had paid the seller, less, perhaps, the rent or hire of the property.
The evidence authorized a finding that the seller made false and fraudulent representations to the plaintiff as to various things about the automobile which were necessary to make it run properly, and thereby induced the plaintiff to buy the car, and the plaintiff within a reasonable time after discovery of these fraudulent statements of the seller undertook to rescind the contract by delivering the automobile back to the seller, and demanding that the seller repay to him the purchase price which he had paid. The verdict for the plaintiff was authorized; and under an application of the above principles just stated, no error appears in the excerpts from the charge excepted to.