This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...plaintiff's complaint purports to plead three causes of action, separately stated, against the defendant, the Speedwell Motor Car Company (Pacific Coast Branch), a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the state of California, for (1) the cancellation of a promissory note in the sum of $1,000, executed by the plaintiff to the Speedwell Motor Car Company, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the state of Ohio, in part payment of the purchase price of a motor cnr sold to the plaintiff by the latter corporation; (2) for the recovery of the sum of $848, alleged to have been paid by the plaintiff to the Ohio corporation on account of the purchase price of the motor car; and (3i for the value of sundry automobile accessories fitted by the plaintiff to the motor car in question, which were alleged to have been wrongfully appropriated and withheld by the Ohio corporation. Each of the several causen of action alleges, in substance, that the Ohio corporation, at the time of the making ol the contract in question, was doing business in the state of California through the medium of an individual agent, one L. V. Lynch, from whom the plaintiff ordered a motor car at the agreed price of $1,500; that the order as given to Lynch was accepted, and the car delivered by the Ohio corporation; that in payment for the car plaintiff gave the Ohio corporation the sum of $500 in cash, and his promissory' note for the balance of the purchase price, and thereafter paid the further sum of $348 on account of the note. The plaintiff's complaint in each of the three causes of action further alleged, in substance, that the Ohio corporation, electing and attempting to rescind the contract of sale, took possession of the motor car, and...