Adams v. Caruso Enterprises, Inc.
| Court | California Court of Appeals |
| Citation | 134 Cal.App.2d 403,285 P.2d 1022 |
| Decision Date | 18 July 1955 |
| Parties | Elmer ADAMS and Rose Adams, his wife, Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. CARUSO ENTERPRISES, Inc., a corporation, Commercial Credit Corporation, et al., Defendants, Caruso Enterprises, Inc., Appellant. Civ. 20800. |
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v.
CARUSO ENTERPRISES, Inc., a corporation, Commercial Credit Corporation, et al., Defendants,
Caruso Enterprises, Inc., Appellant.
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Roger J. Pryor, Compton, for appeallant.
Stanley Moffatt, South Gate, for respondents.
WHITE, Presiding Justice.
By their first amended complaint plaintiffs alleged that on November 8, 1953, in Los Angeles County, they entered into a conditional sales contract with defendant [134 Cal.App.2d 404] Caruso Enterprises Inc., under the terms of which they agreed to buy a certain 1953 Dodge Coronet automobile from said defendant, that the latter agreed to sell the vehicle to plaintiffs for a total cash price of $3460.77, less $1,075 net allowance for plaintiffs' 1949 Plymouth automobile, leaving an unpaid balance due of $2,385.77. That said balance was to be paid off at the rate of $49.43 monthly and plaintiffs expressly informed said defendant that they could not afford a contract that called for payment of more than $50 per month. It was then alleged, 'That the terms and conditions of said sale were written down on a white memo by Defendant Caruso Enterprises' agent and then said agent had these Plaintiffs sign blank yellow contract forms which said Defendant Company agreed to fill out in accordance with the white memo terms and conditions.' That at the time of the transaction here in question, plaintiffs delivered to defendant seller their Plymouth automobile and took delivery of the Dodge car upon the representations, understanding and agreement with defendant seller that the balance due on the contract would amount to no more than $2,385 and that the installment payments would not exceed $50 per month. That subsequently, 'Plaintiffs received through the mail copies of filled in conditional sales contracts with coupon book calling for said $2,385.00 plus $100.00 for insurance (which Plaintiffs understood they were to pay) and $500.00 finance charges totaling $2,985.00 instead of $2,485.00 as agreed, and calling for payments of $99.43 instead of $49.43 as agreed, per month.' Assignment of the contract to defendant Commercial Credit Corporation is then alleged. The complaint further charged that on December 24, 1953, plaintiffs served defendants with written notice of rescission of the contract and offered return to defendants of the Dodge automobile upon delivery to plaintiffs of their Plymouth car, but the defendants refused to rescind the contract.
The second cause of action adopted the averments of the first and then alleged that upon receipt of the 'completed contract'. which provided for $500 in excess of the orally agreed price, and with payments of $99.43 per month instead of the $49.43 per month as agreed at the time of sale, the plaintiff, Elmer Adams, went personally to Mr. H. J. Caruso, president of the Caruso Enterprises Inc., and protested that the written contract was not in accordance with the oral agreement and the written memo made by the Company's agent at the time of sale, and said plaintiff reiterated the fact that he [134 Cal.App.2d 405] had informed said Caruso Company at the start that he could not possibly buy any car for more that $50 per month.
Whereupon the said H. J. Caruso personally agreed that if plaintiffs would pay $49.43 per month for three months, he would rewrite said agreement in acordance with plaintiffs' demands. That at that time the
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said Elmer Adams offered to pay said Caruso the first four monthly payments at $49.43 in advance but the said Caruso then refused to perform this new agreement. It is then alleged that plaintiffs paid to defendant Commercial Credit Corporation, as agent of the co-defendant, two monthly payments of $49.43, each 'on the new oral agreement made by Mr. Caruso, but with the understanding that said payments were on account of a total balance due of $2,485.00'. The third cause of action asked for a declaratory judgment setting forth the rights and duties of the respective parties.By their answer defendants denied that the monthly installments under the contract were to be in the sum of $49.43, and alleged said payments were to be at the rate of $99.43, per month; denied any oral agreement or contract, and denied generally other allegations of misrepresentation or fraud.
Plaintiffs filed their first amendment to the aforesaid first amended complaint, alleging failure to comply with...
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