Harris Truck & Trailer Sales v. Foote

In this cause, Harris Truck & Trailer Sales and Buster Bennett appeal in error from a jury verdict and judgment against them in the Circuit Court of Shelby County, Tennessee for $8,000 recovered on the theory that plaintiffs in error had wrongfully converted a Diamond-T tractor belonging to defendant in error, Bay Foote. The parties will be hereinafter referred to, as in the lower court, as plaintiff and defendants, or called by their respective names.

The tractor in question had been purchased on January 25, 1965 as a “used” tractor by one D. L. Lindsey from Harris Truck & Trailer Sales for…