ROYAL NETHERLANDS S.S. v. QUINTO de GARCIA

No. 84-835.

489 So.2d 128 (1986)

ROYAL NETHERLANDS STEAMSHIP COMPANY, Appellant, v. Elida QUINTO de GARCIA, As Mother and Personal Representative of Carlos Enrique Dominguez Quinto, Deceased, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

May 20, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mitchell, Harris, Canning, Murray & Usich and C. Robert Murray, Jr., Miami, for appellant.

Horton, Perse & Ginsberg and Arnold R. Ginsberg, Huggett & Martucci, Miami, for appellee.

Before HENDRY, NESBITT and DANIEL S. PEARSON, JJ.


HENDRY, Judge.

Defendant Royal Netherlands Steamship Company appeals from a final judgment entered after a jury trial in this wrongful death action. We affirm.

Plaintiff's decedent, a ship painter by trade, was killed in a fall from one of appellant's ships while it was docked in a Guatemalan port. Plaintiff, decedent (her son) and decedent's two minor sons were Guatemalan nationals. Defendant was a Dutch corporation and the ship was of Dutch registry.

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