JAX LIQUORS, INC. v. HALL

Nos. X-340 and X-374.

344 So.2d 247 (1976)

JAX LIQUORS, INC., a Corporation, et al., Appellants, v. Eric HALL, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied December 3, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William S. Burns, Jr., and Mattox S. Hair of Marks, Gray, Conroy & Gibbs, Charles Cook Howell, III, of Howell, Kirby, Montgomery, D'Aiuto & Dean, Jacksonville, and Sam Spector, Tallahassee, for appellants.

Grant F. Spinner of Dawson & Spinner, Jacksonville, for appellee.


SMITH, Judge.

Each appellant raises the pivotal question of whether it or they can be held liable for the parking lot shooting of an unruly bar patron of appellant Jax by an armed and uniformed guard, the employee of a security service operated by appellants Clark and Moore.

The firing of the pistol, viewed as an isolated event, was entirely unnecessary to any legitimate purpose of appellants and of the guard's employment. However, both Jax and the security...

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