Jones v. Warner

— In March, 1958, the plaintiff bought a used 1957 Ford equipped with a Thunderbird motor. Its speedometer showed 14,603 miles. By July, 1958, the speedometer had registered approximately 20,000 miles. He then planned an extensive motor trip during his August vacation. In preparation for it, he bought a new set of tires from the defendant. When he left his car to have them mounted, he *648requested the defendant to “adjust the valves and check it over generally to see if something was amiss” because “the valves or tappets . . . seemed to be noisy and the car was idling a little rough.”

The…