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CITY OF JACKSONVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT v. HOBBS

No. 39915.

246 So.2d 561 (1971)

CITY OF JACKSONVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT and Continental National American Group, Petitioners, v. Cecil E. HOBBS and Florida Department of Commerce, Industrial Relations Commission, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied April 26, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter L. Robison of Mathews, Osborne & Ehrlich, Jacksonville, petitioners.

John F. Cuddy of Howell, Kirby, Montgomery & D'Aiuto, Jacksonville, Patrick H. Mears and J. Franklin Garner, Tallahassee, for respondents.

CARLTON, Justice.

In this workman's compensation case, we are primarily concerned with an alleged connection between injuries to a claimant's left leg sustained in a work-related accident, and an outbreak of cancer in that leg approximately thirteen months thereafter. In January 1968, respondent-claimant Hobbs was driving a police car when he was involved in an accident with another car at an intersection. As claimant lurched forward on impact, his left leg hit the...

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