Question

Joe takes his car into the repair shop to have his tires realigned. While he is waiting for his car, he sees the repairmen take his car to the area where they change the car's oil. Joe says nothing as he is hoping he can get a free oil change. Joe watches while the oil in his car is changed. The car is then taken to the area where the tires are realigned. Joe watches while the tires are realigned. The employees next take Joe's car to be washed. Joe did not know his car would be washed, but knows that many car repair businesses have a practice of cleaning the cars at no additional cost to the customer after completing the repair work. When Joe is presented with the bill, there is a charge for the oil change, the realignment, and the car wash. If challenged in court, the court is most likely to make Joe pay for:

a. the entire bill (oil change, realignment, and the car wash) because he had a contract with the repair shop for all three items.
b. the realignment because that is what he contracted for and the car wash under the doctrine of quasi contract because he spent too much time talking to the customer before he told the cashier he didn't want the car washed.
c. the entire bill (oil change, realignment, and the car wash) under the doctrine of quasi contract because Joe saw all of the work being done and was unable to stop it.
d. only the realignment because that is all he contracted for.

Answer 1

Answer:d. only the realignment because that is all he contracted for.

Step-by-step explanation:

One can not pay for the additional service that they did not agree on when they came to the shop , when Joe came he directly went to the alignment service in which he surely stated that he was coming to do the alignment .

The shop decided without even communicating with him to take the car to the oil service and to the car wash so there was not even a verbal agreement or consultation with Joe on all these services that he surely thought were an additional free service on his paid alignment service that he came for and agreed with them on.