Stevens v. Graf

Plaintiff Allen Stevens of Marysville, a trucker and mover, received a telephone request from the defendant V. L. Graf during the afternoon of February 8,1957, to come immediately to the machine shop of the V. L. Graf Company in Romeo and move some machinery and other heavy equipment. He did so, he and his crew working into the night, and his moving bill of $797 for that and 2 subsequent moving jobs was never paid. He sued V. L. Graf in an action of assumpsit to recover. Graf filed an answer categorically denying liability and asserting no affirmative defenses. The case was tried by the court…