Hanaman v. Liberty Trucking Co.

The defendant Liberty Trucking Company, a common carrier by motor truck, operating under the United States Motor Carrier Act of 1935, transported for the plaintiff, Harley D. Hanaman, an eighteen-hundred-pound printing press from Chicago to defendant’s terminal building in Beloit, Wisconsin, where plaintiff had his place of business. Upon defendant notifying plaintiff of the arrival of the press, he informed defendant that he did not then have room for it and asked if he could leave it with defendant until he arranged to pick it up. He contends that defendant’s agent promised there would be…