ELDER v. ROBERT J. ACKERMAN, INC.

No. 76-2669.

362 So.2d 999 (1978)

Earl E. ELDER, Sr., As Administrator of the Estate of Earl E. Elder, Jr., Appellant, v. ROBERT J. ACKERMAN, INC., a Florida Corporation for Profit, Robert J. Ackerman, Jr., Continental Insurance Company, a Foreign Corporation, and Highlands Insurance Company, a Foreign Corporation, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

September 27, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillips & Babbitt and Larry Klein, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Kirk Sullivan and Edna L. Caruso, of Montgomery, Lytal, Reiter, Denney & Searcy, West Palm Beach, for appellee-Highlands Ins. Co.

Stephen C. McAliley, of Brennan, McAliley, Albury & Hayskar, West Palm Beach, for remaining appellees.


DOWNEY, Chief Judge.

This appeal involves the admissibility of a statement by a driver of a vehicle given to a police officer at the scene of an accident.

Appellee, Robert J. Ackerman, Jr., a 16 year old high school boy, while driving a truck at about 5:00 a.m. in Palm Beach County, collided with appellant's decedent, Earl Lee Elder, Jr., who, with a passenger, was driving a motorcycle through an intersection controlled by a traffic light. Elder and his passenger...

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