HARDWARE MUTUAL CASUALTY COMPANY v. SUTTON

No. 35711.

197 So.2d 502 (1967)

HARDWARE MUTUAL CASUALTY COMPANY, and S.A.M. Corporation D/B/a Place Pigalle, Petitioners, v. Sharon SUTTON and the Florida Industrial Commission, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

April 5, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Spencer & Taylor, Miami, for petitioners.

John V. Christie, Allen Clements, Miami, Patrick H. Mears, Tallahassee, and J. Franklin Garner, Lakeland, for respondents.


THOMAS, Justice.

The respondent, Sharon Sutton, was severely injured on the night of 12 September 1962 in what petitioners call a "shooting incident". It seems to us that the action deserves a much harsher definition. Actually she was engaged in her employment as an acrobatic dancer when a disgruntled, and, evidently, drunken, patron shot up the place killing a male entertainer, wounding the doorman with bullets in both legs and so injuring the claimant by shooting...

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