Donovan v. Mac-Gray Co.

Mr. Donovan and his wife obtained a verdict on a count in tort for alleged misrepresentations by Joseph O’Brien, a sales representative of the defendant (Mac-Gray). Mac-Gray argues exceptions to the trial judge’s refusal to direct a verdict for it and to rulings on evidence. On confused, conflicting evidence, the jury could have concluded that the Donovans, in purchasing from Mac-Gray coin-operated dry cleaning equipment, reasonably relied upon O’Brien’s statements, material to the Donovans’ decision to purchase, concerning (a) the extent to which the equipment could be employed without an…