DADE COUNTY v. McKENNA

No. 65-181.

179 So.2d 401 (1965)

DADE COUNTY, Florida, a/k/a Metropolitan Dade County Transit Authority and Ferrill Law, Appellants, v. Patricia L. McKENNA and John C. McKenna, her husband, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. Third District.

November 2, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sam Daniels, William H. Peeples and John E. Finney, Miami, for appellants.

Hawkesworth & Kay, Miami, for appellees.

Before HENDRY, C.J., and BARKDULL and SWANN, JJ.


SWANN, Judge.

On the afternoon of December 30, 1960 the plaintiff, Patricia L. McKenna, was hit by a boy on a bicycle as she left a bus operated by the defendant, Dade County, Florida, a/k/a Metropolitan Dade County Transit Authority. She and her husband, John C. McKenna, sued the transit authority and its driver, Ferrill Law, and obtained jury verdicts of $4,000.00 and $250.00, respectively.

The defendants filed a motion for remittitur, or, in the alternative...

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