National Hispanic Circus, Inc. v. Rex Trucking, Inc.

WIENER, Circuit Judge:

Defendant — Counter Claimant — Appellant Mason & Dixon Lines, Inc. (“Mason”) challenges a jury verdict and damages awarded in favor of Plaintiff-Counter Defendant-Appellee the National Hispanic Circus (the “Circus”). We affirm.

This dispute arises out of a missing set of circus bleachers, lost somewhere between Texas and Chicago while in the care of Mason. The Circus regularly employed Mason’s trucks and drivers to transport its equipment from one show to the next. On this occasion, however, one of seven trailers — the one carrying half of the Circus’s bleachers — never…