Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co. v. Coplin

CHADICK, Chief Justice.

H. C. Young, an Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company contract dealer, doing business as Young’s Tractor and Equipment, at Cooper, Delta County, Texas, sold John Coplin and his son, James M. Coplin, a C-2 combine manufactured and owned at the time of sale, according to Young’s testimony, by Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company, a Delaware corporation, which had its principal office in Dallas County. On the day Coplin took delivery of the combine, and while the machine was being moved some miles distant to the elder Coplin’s home, the combine’s brakes locked and rendered…