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BUFFKIN v. BOARD OF COUNTY COM'RS OF BREVARD CTY.

No. 74-1107.

320 So.2d 876 (1975)

Ray Hampton BUFFKIN, As Administrator of the Estate of Steven Edgar Buffkin, Deceased, Appellant, v. The BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF BREVARD COUNTY, Florida, As the District Board of Commissioners of the Mosquito Control District of Brevard County, Florida, et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied November 17, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William H. Roundtree, Cocoa, for appellant.

Harold R. Marsee and J. Richard Caldwell, Jr., of Pitts, Eubanks, Ross & Rumberger, Orlando, for appellees.

OWEN, Judge.

Appellant's action for the wrongful death of his two-year-old son was dismissed with prejudice on the ground that the defendants were immune from suit under the doctrine of sovereign immunity.

The issue here is whether the Mosquito Control District of Brevard County, Florida, an agency of the state, had, by the purchase of liability insurance from the defendant, United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company, waived its sovereign immunity pursuant...

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