ACEVEDO v. ACOSTA

No. 73-1231.

296 So.2d 526 (1974)

Gloria P. ACEVEDO and Travelers Indemnity Insurance Company, a Florida Corporation, Appellants, v. Justo L. ACOSTA, Individually and As Father and Next Friend of Luis Acosta, a Minor, and Blanca A. Acosta, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

June 18, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Adams, George, Wood, Schulte & Thompson and James G. Etheredge, Miami, for appellants.

Horton & Perse and Arnold R. Ginsberg, Rabin, Sassoon & Ratiner, Miami, for appellees.

Before PEARSON, CARROLL and HAVERFIELD, JJ.


PEARSON, Judge.

The substantial question presented by this appeal is whether the damages as shown by a jury verdict to a child-passenger and the derivative damages and expenses of the father of the minor child and of the husband of the wife-driver are to be reduced under the doctrine of comparative negligence to the percentage of fault found by the jury to be attributable to the wife-driver of the car. The trial court held that there was no reduction of damages upon...

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