State Equipment Corp. v. Robinson

This was a suit brought to recover from the defendant repair charges for work done on the diesel engine of one of his dump trucks. The lower court gave judgment for the plaintiff, and the defendant brings the matter here.

The case turns almost entirely on its facts. The plaintiff corporation is in the business of selling, servicing and repairing heavy equipment. The defendant is an excavating contractor who, in January of 1972, sought to have the plaintiff rebuild the engine in one of his trucks. The engine had been operated with a cooling system leak and had overheated and “seized.” Bepairs…