Winthrop v. Carinhas, (1940)
Court: Supreme Court of Florida
Number:
Visitors: 12
Judges: WHITFIELD, P. J.
Attorneys: Charles Cook Howell, Charles Cook Howell, Jr., and J.S. Harrison, for Plaintiff in Error;
Marks, Marks, Holt, Gray Yates, for Defendants in Error.
Filed: Apr. 09, 1940
Latest Update: Mar. 02, 2020
Summary: Writ of error was taken to a judgment for defendants in an action for damages for personal injuries received by a guest passenger in an automobile. In the first count of the declaration it is alleged that on November 21, 1937, the plaintiff was a guest passenger in a motor vehicle which was being driven and operated by the defendants across the St. Johns River Bridge, a public *Page 590 highway, in Jacksonville, Florida; that said motor vehicle was driven and operated carelessly, recklessly and
Summary: Writ of error was taken to a judgment for defendants in an action for damages for personal injuries received by a guest passenger in an automobile. In the first count of the declaration it is alleged that on November 21, 1937, the plaintiff was a guest passenger in a motor vehicle which was being driven and operated by the defendants across the St. Johns River Bridge, a public *Page 590 highway, in Jacksonville, Florida; that said motor vehicle was driven and operated carelessly, recklessly and w..
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There is a very enlightening discussion of this question of the different degrees or kinds of negligence in Florida Ry.
Nav. Co., v. Webster, 25 Fla. 394, 5 So. 714. See also the cases cited in the opinion in Cannon v. State, 91 Fla. 214,107 So. 360, which I think support the above opinion.
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