Tel-Radio Transport Corp. v. Cantrell & Cochrane Corp.

Plaintiff brought this action to recover damages on a truck-leasing agreement alleged to have been breached by defendant. The jury returned a verdict for plaintiff, and defendant * appeals from a $49,000 verdict and judgment entered in favor of plaintiff.

The plaintiff corporation, Tel-Radio Transport Corporation was in the trucking and truck leasing business with its garage facilities located at Hinsdale, Hlinois. The defendant manufactured and distributed soft drinks in a nation-wide operation with canning plants on the West Coast, in New Jersey and one in Chicago.

In 1954, Harry Newberger,…