Private Automobile Purchase My husband works with a man whose father passed…

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Private Automobile Purchase
My husband works with a man whose father passed away and his mother was selling the family vehicle. He was told it is a really good car. We went to look at it to purchase for our college age son to drive to work this summer. We told her why we were buying it and that we knew her son and daughter in law. She verbally guaranteed the vehicle. We could not drive it to have it checked out because there was no insurance or registration on it. We were buying on trust. The vehicles frame, brake line and gas line are shot. She wrote the bill of sale as is and said too bad. Do we have a case for small claims court?

2 thoughts on “Private Automobile Purchase My husband works with a man whose father passed…”

  1. Re: Private Automobile Purchase
    I received your post on 6-25-2001.

    Perhaps.

    Your complaint would read fraud in for breach of contract and fraud in the inducement. Small claims is also limited to $3000.00

    Good Luck

    RRG

    Robert R. Groezinger
    GroezingerLaw P.C.
    P.O. Box 23 – Patterson, NY
    Mid-hudson Valley + Nyc, NY 12563

  2. Re: Private Automobile Purchase
    Not really, because you could have brought
    a mechanic to the house to look at the car
    and go over it before you bought it even
    if you could not drive it on the highway

    Your only other avenue would be to call
    the attorney general’s office to see if
    there is some provision in the lemon law
    to save you

    Garry Hanlon
    Garry Stephen Hanlon, Esq.
    PRACTICE CLOSED
    Rochester, NY 00000

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