Hayes Oyster Co. v. Dulcich

The jury awarded plaintiff Hayes Oyster Co. $45,400 in compensatory damages because defendants, Frank Dulcich, Pacific Sea Food, Inc., and Pacific Oyster, Inc., 1 had converted Hayes’ oyster shell pile. The jury did not award Hayes punitive damages. On appeal, Hayes raises 24 assignments of error. Its assignments focus on the proper measure of damages for conversion, evidence on punitive damages, instructions concerning the Port of Garibaldi, and two summary judgment rulings. We affirm the judgment in part, reverse it in part, and remand.

Beginning in 1947, Hayes Oyster Co. leased land from…