LAUCK v. GENERAL TELEPHONE COMPANY

No. 73-259.

300 So.2d 759 (1974)

Lewis Russell LAUCK, Appellant, v. GENERAL TELEPHONE COMPANY, a Florida Corporation, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

September 27, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E.B. Rood, Rood & Charlton, and Theodore D. Lindgren, Tampa, for appellant.

Daniel A. Carlton, Dart, Dickinson, O'Riorden, Gibbons & Quale, Sarasota, for appellee.


McNULTY, Acting Chief Judge.

In this action for damages appellant sued in two counts, each seeking recovery for fire damage allegedly caused when lightning struck a main telephone line and flowed through the wires into appellant's barn-office building in which telephone service had been installed by appellee/General Telephone Company.

Count I, predicated on negligent installation, was dismissed because the trial court found it on its face to be barred by the...

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