Farris v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
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““On Sunday, May 31, 1959, Farris sold the twelve cars to Jenkins Motor Company of Mobile at a gross sale price of $7,000. In the trust receipts he had promised not to sell below a total of $9,625. Associates later repossessed the automobiles and sold them at auction for $12,590. “Farris had sold single cars to Jenkins several times beforehand. * * ■» * * * * * “Mr. W. R. Alford, branch manager for Associates, testified for the prosecution that on Monday morning, June 1, he went by * * * [the defendant’s place of business] and found only three ‘old model’ cars on the car lot there. Defense witness, Mr. Farris’s bookkeeper, testified that after the sale to Jenkins there were about ten to twelve other automobiles on the lot, and that Mr. Farris had another lot which remained in business at least two or three weeks after the transaction on May 31.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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