Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1912 — DR. S. HERBERT MOORE CLAIMS HE WAS BUNCOED. [ARTICLE]

DR. S. HERBERT MOORE CLAIMS HE WAS BUNCOED.

Sues Overland Company and Dr. Hansson for Alleged Fraudulent Automobile Transaction. ~ * Last year Dr. S. Herbert Moore bought an Overland runabout. He has now decided that he made a, grave mistake and through his attorney, W. H. Parkinson, he has begun suit in the Jasper circuit court against the Willys-Overland Company and John Hansson, the local agent. If there are any good qualities in the particular car that the doctor purchased they are not recounted in the complaint, which brands the machine defective in about all its parts and alleges that it was not a new machine as had been represented but was a second-hand machine and was worth S6OO less than a new machine of the same make. The complaint states that the purchasing M. D. paid the agent $845 for the car and was guaranteed that it was a new car. The doctor charges that false representations were made to him and that they were known by the agent to be false. He claims that the car was not new but was a sec-ond-hand one and had been ruh for several thousand miles before he bought it and that it was not possessed of the class and character of a new machine. Among the frailties he claims for the car are that the engine was old and parts were loose, the valves leaky, the oiling system loose and worn, the brakes defective, the transmission worn and defective, while other parts are alleged to have been opt of condition. It is charged that the engine made more noise than a new and good engine should make. The doctor claims that he spent $l5O in trying to have the defective parts repaired and he asks judgment for $750, alleging that the machine was worth to begin with S6OO less than he paid.