BASSETT v. MERLIN, INC.

No. 46781.

335 So.2d 273 (1976)

Harry L. BASSETT, As Personal Representative of the Estate of the Late Thomas Emil Meyer, and Henri and Irene Meyer, the Parents of the Late Thomas Emil Meyer, Appellants, v. MERLIN, INC., a Florida Corporation, et al., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied August 10, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irving J. Whitman and Mark Pollack, of Whitman & Wolfe, Miami, for appellant.

S.O. Carson, Edward J. Atkins and George W. Chesrow of Walton, Lantaff, Schroeder, Carson & Wahl, Miami, for appellees.


OVERTON, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of the circuit court that initially and directly passed on the constitutionality of Section 768.21(6)(a), Florida Statutes. We have jurisdiction.1

Thomas Emil Meyer was killed in a two car collision on May 18, 1973. Appellant, the personal representative of his estate, filed on behalf of decedent and his parents a wrongful death action against the three appellees: the driver...

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