WONG v. CITY OF MIAMI

No. 39295.

237 So.2d 132 (1970)

William WONG, William F. Mah, Herbert Brameister, Marilyn Edelblum, Sampson's Market, Inc. and the Shelly Corporation D/B/a Bon Marche Cleaner's, Petitioners, v. CITY OF MIAMI, a Municipal Corporation, and Dade County, a Political Subdivision of the State of Florida, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

June 17, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry S. Stewart, of Frates, Fay, Floyd & Pearson, Miami, for petitioners.

Alan H. Rothstein, City Atty., and John S. Lloyd, Asst. City Atty., for City of Miami.

Thomas C. Britton, County Atty., and St. Julien P. Rosemond, First Asst. County Atty., for County of Dade.


CARLTON, Justice.

Upon petitioners' application, we review here a decision of the District Court of Appeal, Third District, 229 So.2d 659, certified as one passing upon a question of great public interest,

"[B]ecause it passes on the liability of a municipality or political subdivision of the State for damage occasioned to citizen or his property during a riot, or time of civil disobedience, etc."

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