WOMETCO THEATRES CORPORATION v. RATH

No. 59-454.

123 So.2d 472 (1960)

WOMETCO THEATRES CORPORATION, a Florida corporation, d/b/a Miracle Theatre, Appellant, v. Julius RATH, as Administrator of the Estate of Juliana Rath, and Julius Rath, individually, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. Third District.

Rehearing Denied October 26, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wicker & Smith and Stephen C. McAliley, Miami, for appellant.

Harry L. Bassett, Miami Beach, for appellee.


HORTON, Chief Judge.

The defendant has appealed from an adverse judgment entered pursuant to a jury verdict in a negligence action. The complaint alleged damages for personal injuries, sustained by Juliana Rath while in defendant's theatre, occasioned by the actions of a suspected child molester, who struck her while attempting to flee from the theatre.

The record reveals that an usher employed by the defendant had become suspicious that a patron of the theatre...

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