Taylor v. Mason

John Taylor, Defendant below, appeals from a judgment based on a claim charging him with misrepresentation and breach of express warranty in connection with the sale of a truck. A jury returned a Plaintiff's verdict in the amount of $17,825.33. Taylor challenges the propriety of certain evidentiary rulings by the trial court. We reverse and remand.

The tractor-truck which is the basis of this action was sold on June 13, 1978, by John Taylor to James D. Mason, Jr., for the sum of $38,500.00. According to Mason, Taylor, through his employee-salesman, William Talley, represented to Mason that the…