Taylor v. Samuel

Sam Robinson, Associate Justice.

This is a suit for damages to personal property. Appellee, Alvin B. Samuel, owned a TD-9 tractor which he left parked in the country near a house occupied by Mrs. Rosa Hyde. The tractor needed repairs, and the water was drained from the radiator and cooling system.

Later, two men delivered some lumber and unloaded it near the tractor. After the lumber was unloaded, they could not get the lumber truck started; they asked Mrs. Hyde for her permission to use the tractor to- pull the truck to get it started; she told them that the tractor did not belong to her, that…