FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT CO. v. BELL


113 So.2d 697 (1959)

FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT CO., a corporation; and Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co., a corporation, Petitioners, v. Barbara Jean BELL, Lois Ann Bell, James E. Bell, and Lloyd E. Bell, all minors, by their guardian, the First National Bank in Fort Lauderdale, Florida; and Paris G. Singer, their next friend, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

July 23, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brigham, Wright, Dressler & Rearick and George W. Wright, Jr., Miami, for Florida Power & Light Co.

S.O. Carson and Walton, Lantaff, Schroeder, Atkins, Carson & Wahal, Miami, for Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co.

Nichols, Gaither, Green, Frates & Beckham and Sam Daniels, Miami, for respondents.


DREW, Justice.

Probable jurisdiction of this Court herein has been noted and writ of certiorari issued.

The two petitions for certiorari, filed by Southern Bell Telephone and Florida Power Company, are addressed to a decision of the District Court, Third District, by which it reversed a circuit court judgment holding that the evidence in the cause, an action for negligence allegedly causing the death of the respondents' father, was insufficient to present...

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