SIMS' CRANE SERVICE v. IDEAL STEEL PRODUCTS, INC.

No. 85-8955.

800 F.2d 1553 (1986)

SIMS' CRANE SERVICE, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. IDEAL STEEL PRODUCTS, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

October 7, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Trotter, III, Augusta, Ga., for plaintiff-appellant.

Wyck A. Knox, Ted H. Clarkson, Augusta, Ga., for defendant-appellee.

Before VANCE and EDMONDSON, Circuit Judges, and ALLGOOD, Senior District Judge.


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-appellee 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...

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