UNITED AIRLINES, INC. v. W.E. JOHNSON EQUIPMENT COMPANY

No. 1989.

227 So.2d 528 (1969)

UNITED AIRLINES, INC., Appellant, v. W.E. JOHNSON EQUIPMENT COMPANY, Inc., Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida. Fourth District.

October 31, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Wahl, Jr., Miami, and Joseph P. Metzger, of Walton, Lantaff, Schroeder, Carson & Wahl, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Gerald M. Walsh, of Walsh & Dolan, Fort Lauderdale, for appellee.


OWEN, Judge.

This case involves a question of whether a bailee for hire may maintain an action against the bailor for breach of implied warranty of suitability of the chattel for the bailee's known intended use of it.

United Airlines needed a means of loading and unloading wheelchair passengers to and from its planes at the Miami airport. This need was made known to appellee, W.E. Johnson Equipment Co., Inc., which leased one of its forklift type hoists to...

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