CONE v. INTER COUNTY TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH CO.


40 So.2d 148 (1949)

CONE et al. v. INTER COUNTY TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH CO. et al.

Supreme Court of Florida, en Banc.

Rehearing Denied February 22, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henderson, Franklin, Starnes & Holt, of Fort Myers, for Cone and Manley.

Futch & Futch, of Leesburg, for J.D. Manley.

Sam Bucklew, of Tampa, for J.L. Cone.

Tillman & McEwen and Ralph A. Marsicano, all of Tampa, and Sheppard & Woolslair, of Fort Myers, for appellees.


SEBRING, Justice.

The appeal is from a judgment entered in favor of the plaintiffs below in a case involving personal injuries to one Stovall, an employee of the plaintiff telephone company. The essential allegations of the declaration are that the defendants, through their agent or servant, one Newboldt, so negligently operated a motor vehicle on the highways of Lee County that it ran into a gasoline truck causing the truck to burst into flames, whereby telephone...

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