Legal Opinion
Sims' Crane Service, Inc. v. Ideal Steel Products, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided October 7, 1986No. 85-8955PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDMONDSON, Circuit Judge:
In this bailment for hire case, plaintiff-appellant Sims’ Crane Service, Inc. (Sims’) appeals from a judgment notwithstanding the verdict (jnov) in favor of defendant-ap-pellee Ideal Steel Products, Inc. (Ideal Steel). Because the jnov should not have been granted, we REVERSE the district court judgment.
Ideal Steel rented a crane and its operator from Sims’ to move various large objects, including a concrete hopper. The bailment for hire contract provided that Sims’ operator would run the crane and that Ideal Steel’s employees would attach the rigging to the objects…
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