Grasshopper Lesson 19 Critical Thinking
Rodney Grasshopper
Professor Mangoli
Business Law 2241
11 April 2019
Critical Thinking 19
In the case of Landshire Food Service, Inc. v. Coghill the passage of a title on a motor
vehicle is what was up for debate. In 1984 the defendant J.A. Coghill sold the plaintiff Barry
Hyken (Landshire Food Service) a 1979 Rolls Royce Corniche, to someone who claimed to be
someone known as Daniel Bellman. Bellman gave Coghill a cashier’s check worth $94,500.
Coghill dated and signed the title, and used the name “Executive Jet Leasing” as the name of the
transferee. Coghills bank informed him that the check was forged, and Coghill reported the
vehicle stolen.
Later that year Hyken, who traded in expensive and imported cars responded to an ad in a
newspaper. The person who posted the ad wanted to sell a 1980 Rolls Royce Corniche. Hyken
met the seller at a hotel. Hyken wished to ascertain why there was a discrepancy between the
