HUSKY INDUSTRIES, INC. v. BLACK

No. 80-1185.

434 So.2d 988 (1983)

HUSKY INDUSTRIES, INC., and Winn-Dixie Stores, Appellants, v. Thomas L. BLACK and Geraldine Black, His Wife, Continental Group, Inc., Continental White Cap Division, a Foreign Corporation, American Motorist Insurance Company, a Foreign Corporation, Sherwin-Williams Company, a Foreign Corporation, and Union Oil Company, a Foreign Corporation, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

July 6, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marjorie D. Gadarian, Graham, of Jones & Foster, P.A., West Palm Beach, for appellants.

Glenn H. Mitchell of Spillias & Mitchell and Stephen R. Koons of Davis, Koons & Fearrington, West Palm Beach, for appellees.


PEARSON, DANIEL S., Associate Judge.

In 1978, Thomas Black, a fireman of twenty years experience, hosted a backyard barbecue. Most of the guests were experienced firefighters. Black, along with one Crockett, the then Fire Chief for the Town of Palm Beach, with eighteen years of firefighting experience, began the charcoal fire in mid-afternoon by saturating the briquettes with Sparky charcoal lighter fluid, a product manufactured by the appellant Husky Industries,...

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