Snead v. Pay-Less Rentals, Inc.

Stolz, Judge.

The plaintiff television and stereo rental company brought a trover action to recover the possession (by its election) of rental television sets from the defendant, who was either an independent contractor (as he claims) or an employee of the plaintiff for the purpose of repairing the plaintiffs rental sets (as the plaintiff claims). The defendant admitted possession, and asserted a statutory lien and counterclaims for his services, alternatively as an independent contractor or an employee.

The plaintiff refused to answer the defendant’s interrogatories numbered 1,2, 3,4 and 7,…