Port of Portland v. Brady-Hamilton Stevedore Co.

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment denying it damages for injury to a crane it had rented to defendant and awarding defendant $15,931.20 in damages on its counterclaim for losses suffered as a result of the crane’s malfunction. Plaintiff argues that the trial court erred in accepting the jury’s verdict and in denying its motion for mistrial, in limiting its cross-examination of two defense witnesses and in submitting all three counts of defendant’s counterclaim to the jury. We reverse and remand for a new trial on the counterclaim only.

Plaintiff leases its docks and cranes to stevedoring…