NATIONAL SURETY CORP. v. WINDHAM


74 So.2d 549 (1954)

NATIONAL SURETY CORP. v. WINDHAM et al. (Two Cases).

Supreme Court of Florida. En Banc.

Rehearing Denied September 23, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Keen, O'Kelley & Spitz, Tallahassee, for appellant.

B.L. Solomon, Marianna, A.K. Black, Lake City, for appellees.


MILLEDGE, Justice.

A building contractor, finding himself drunk in Live Oak and desiring to get to a sanitorium in Sealy Springs, Alabama, in order to obtain an alcoholic cure, agreed to pay a 16 year old boy named Windham $25 and his return bus fare to transport the contractor in his own car to the sanitorium. The boy's father consenting, the trip started. On the way the contractor, who had been asleep in the back seat, awoke and in a drunken attempt to climb over...

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