ALTERMAN TRANSPORT LINES, INC. v. McCAHON

No. 64-216.

168 So.2d 707 (1964)

ALTERMAN TRANSPORT LINES, INC., a corporation, and Ferrin Hugh Grimes, Appellants, v. Mildred McCAHON, Alexander McCahon, Jr., a minor, Florence McCahon, a minor, and Alexander McCahon, individually and as husband of Mildred McCahon and as father and next friends of the minors, Alexander McCahon, Jr., and Florence McCahon, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. Third District.

Rehearing Denied December 4, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Preddy & Haddad, Miami, for appellants.

Dean, Adams & Fischer and Hugh Wood, Miami, for appellees.

Before BARKDULL, C.J., and CARROLL and TILLMAN PEARSON, JJ.


BARKDULL, Chief Judge.

The appellants, defendants in the trial court, appeal an adverse final judgment in a personal injury action and have preserved two points for review by this court: (1) The propriety of the direction of a verdict of liability; (2) The permitting into evidence of testimony of an investigating police officer as to the point of impact between the two vehicles.

As to the first point, we find that the trial judge erred in directing a verdict...

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