Hughes v. National Equipment Corp.

The plaintiff-appellee, E. L. Hughes, is a contractor doing business under the trade-name of Hughes Construction Company. During the spring of 1930, plaintiff had a subcontract for the grading of a portion of a line of railroad of the Rock Island Railway Company near Jamesport, Missouri. While such grading job was being done, one K. R. Osman, with whom plaintiff had been acquainted for several years, visited the job- and endeavored to interest the plaintiff as well as other contractors in certain machines known as dumptors, then being sold by defendant, National Equipment Corporation. On or…