C. O. Porter MacHinery Co. v. Coleman

The plaintiff in this case now is, and for some time past has been, engaged at Grand Rapids, Michigan, in the business of designing and manufacturing metal products. In the month of February, 1947, it contracted with defendant to move a machine from plaintiff’s principal place of business a distance of approximately 7 blocks to a location on Muskegon avenue. The machine in question is described as a Brown & Sharpe grinder. It was approximately 6 feet in height, 4 feet in length, and 4 feet in width at the base. It weighed in excess of a ton. The top of the machine was a long narrow table…