Lamonte v. Mason

PONDER, Judge.

This is a suit for rental of a tractor and for damages for necessary repairs. The trial court granted the rental but rejected the cost of repairs. Plaintiff appealed.

The only issue is whether the trial court committed manifest error in finding that plaintiff had not proved the damages by a preponderance of the evidence.

We affirm.

Plaintiff orally rented a tractor to defendant, who used it for several hours before it developed a problem in the fuel system and stopped. After plaintiff and his mechanic came to defendant’s place and remedies the problem, the mechanic noticed that the…