Lawhead v. Woodpecker Truck & Equipment, Inc.

This is an action for personal injuries allegedly suffered during the course of a wrongful repossession by defendants of plaintiff’s logging truck. The jury returned a verdict in favor of defendants. Plaintiff appeals from the resulting judgment.

Plaintiff is a logger and was the contract purchaser of a log truck and trailer from defendant Caldwell Contracting, Inc. Its “managing agent,” defendant Arthur B. Caldwell, came to plaintiff’s house on January 4,1971, and told him that the insurance would expire on the truck that night and that he wanted the logs unloaded before the insurance…