Square Deal MacHine Co. v. Garrett Corp.

MOSK, J. pro tem. *

Appellant corporation appeals from an adverse judgment, after trial by jury in the court below, and maintains it should have prevailed as a matter of law under the attendant circumstances.

Respondent corporation, which we shall call Square Deal, operated a machine shop in South Gate, county of Los Angeles, for precision lathe and milling machine production. Appellant corporation, hereinafter referred to as Garrett, operated a plant and a retail sales and supply department in Vernon, also located in the county of Los Angeles. The companies were well known to each other…