La-Tex Equipment Rental Co. v. Thomas W. Hooley & Sons, Inc.

JANVIER, Judge.

Plaintiff, La-Tex Equipment Rental Company, a partnership, owns and rents to contractors heavy mechanical equipment used in construction work. Defendant, Thomas W. Hooley and Sons, Inc., is a contracting corporation which found it necessary to rent from plaintiff two cranes for a job in which the defendant corporation was engaged. There were two separate but identical contracts, one covering the rental of a crane known as a 703 Lima SC Crane, and the other called a Link-Belt Motor crane. Rental was to be paid on a per diem basis and the cranes were rented “bare”, no operators…