Shedd said he owned land in Vermont that he wanted to trade for land in Riverside County. The land Worthley owned and wanted to trade was not worth quite as much as the land in Vermont, so Worthley added his Cartercar automobile to the deal. Shedd took it — the five-passenger vehicle was worth about $700. Once the paperwork was signed, Worthley began looking into the Vermont land he had traded for. He was convinced he had been had and Shedd didn’t own the Vermont land included in the deal.