FLORIDA EAST COAST RAILWAY COMPANY v. SOPER

Nos. 61-598, 61-599.

146 So.2d 605 (1962)

FLORIDA EAST COAST RAILWAY COMPANY, a Florida Corporation, Appellant, v. Alice J. SOPER, As Administratrix of the Estate of David Edward Soper, Deceased, Appellee. FLORIDA EAST COAST RAILWAY COMPANY, a Florida Corporation, Appellant, v. Lillie Mae HOOPER, As Ancillary Administratrix of the Estate of William Raymond Brent, Deceased, and Brenda Joyce Brent, Daughter of William Raymond Brent, Deceased, by Her Next Friend, Ollie B. Brent, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. Third District.

September 18, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bolles & Prunty and Richard M. Winokur, Miami, for appellant.

Nichols, Gaither, Beckham, Colson & Spence, Miami, and Alan R. Schwartz, Miami Beach, for appellees.

Before HORTON, BARKDULL and HENDRY, JJ.


HORTON, Judge.

These cases have been consolidated for the purposes of briefing, use of one record on appeal and for oral argument. Appellant seeks review of adverse final judgments entered against it in two negligence actions.

Both cases arose out of an accident involving appellant's freight train and an automobile driven by the deceased Soper in which the deceased Brent was a passenger. Soper was unmarried and had...

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