Florida Small Business Corp. v. Miami Shipyards Corp.

The plaintiff below appeals from an adverse judgment in an action brought on a bailment contract, and contends the court erred (1) in directing a verdict for the defendant and (2) in excluding certain proffered testimony. We find those contentions to be without merit and affirm.

The subject of the alleged bailment was a boat moored to a dock in defendant’s boatyard. There was no “complete delivery” to the defendant, essential to a bailment, because for some two weeks prior to the time the boat sank the plaintiff-owner had placed it in possession and control of an employee to prepare it for…