SEABOARD COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANY v. BELL

No. 67-474.

212 So.2d 358 (1968)

SEABOARD COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANY, Successor to Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company, Appellant-Defendant, v. Leila Alice BELL, Appellee-Plaintiff.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. Second District.

Rehearing Denied August 6, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard W. Reeves, of Allen, Dell, Frank & Trinkle, Tampa, and Luke G. Galant, of Dawson, Galant, Maddox, Boyer, Sulik & Nichols, Jacksonville, for appellant.

G. Richard Christ, Tampa, for appellee.


MANN, Judge.

Out of an abundance of fairness to the plaintiff the able judge before whom this slip-and-fall case was tried allowed it to go to the jury and entered judgment on its verdict, though he expressed to counsel reservations about the lack of evidence to prove negligence.

Appellee fell at the Jacksonville railroad terminal while walking down a ramp which descended 10 feet over a distance of 90 feet. A handrail was available in the middle of the ramp...

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