Sweitzer v. Whitehead

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Benjamin B. Jones,

This is an action in assumpsit instituted in the Court of Common Pleas of Berks County by Harry P. Sweitzer and John Mele (appellees) against Donald E. Whitehead, Edward H. Land and Whitehead Equipment Corporation to recover damages for injuries sustained to certain equipment and the loss of other equipment as the result of a breach of an oral bailment contract. Upon issue joined, the matter was tried before the Honorable Albert S. Readinger and a jury and the jury returned a verdict in favor of appellees in the sum of $23,500 against not only Whitehead…