LARNEL BUILDERS, INC. v. MARTIN


110 So.2d 649 (1959)

LARNEL BUILDERS, INC., a Florida corporation, Petitioner, v. James C. MARTIN, as natural father, next friend and surviving father of Carl Martin, deceased, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied May 1, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dixon, DeJarnette, Bradford & Williams, Miami, for petitioner.

Eaton & Achor, Miami, for respondent.


DREW, Justice.

The petitioner, defendant in the trial court, seeks by petition for writ of certiorari to obtain review of a decision of the District Court, Third District, which affirmed a judgment based upon a jury verdict for plaintiff, respondent in this Court, in an action for wrongful death based upon the doctrine of attractive nuisance.

The respondent's son, age seven, was drowned in water adjacent to a mound of rock excavated by the petitioner. At the...

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