Skelton

Plaintiff sued to recover damages which he alleged that he had sustained by reason of certain automobile parts of the value of $177.20 having been converted by defendants, and for the further sum of six hundred dollars for loss of time and money spent in hiring vehicles to use in the place of an automobile the use of which he alleged he was deprived of by defendants. The case came on for trial and it appeared by the evidence that plaintiff, after having purchased an automobile from defendants, became dissatisfied with it because of the improper working of the machine and returned it to the agency of defendant corporation, which was managed by the individual defendants, except Dietz. Dietz was the factory representative of the Schacht Motor Car Company. At the time plaintiff delivered the automobile into the hands of defendants he delivered also certain extra, equipment the alleged value of which has already been stated. He testified that the machine was never redeliverd to him in satisfactory condition, that it was injured and damaged, and that for a considerable period of time he was obliged to hire other automobiles and vehicles to use in the prosecution of his business. It was…