Schmidt-Hitchcock Contractors v. Dunning

This is an action by Schmidt-Hitchcock Contractors, a corporation, against Charles H. Dunning in which it seeks to recover $1,180 as rental for an Ingersoll-Rand portable compressor and $1,000 as damages for injuries thereto as a result of defendant’s alleged failure to take proper care of it while in his possession. From a judgment in its favor for $399.51 rendered upon the verdict of a jury the plaintiff appeals.

It appears from the complaint that the defendant hired the compressor from the plaintiff for the period, April 30, 1927, to November 27, 1928; that he promised to pay therefor $150…