Union Trust Co. v. American Commercial Car Co.

The learned circuit judge directed a verdict for the defendant upon the following undisputed facts: J. R. Arcello, a wholesale fruit dealer in Detroit, bought a new truck of defendant company and, it needing some adjustment, Arcello and his employee, Joe Farranti, drove it to defendant’s place of business and left it, and Arcello was loaned one of defendant’s trucks until 6 o’clock in the afternoon of that day. Farranti, accompanied by Arcello, drove the borrowed truck away, and it was used by Arcello in his business that afternoon, and about 6 o’clock, instead of being returned to defendant…