METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY v. ASUSTA

No. 77-1501.

359 So.2d 58 (1978)

METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY and Marcos R. Correa, Appellants, v. Vilma ASUSTA, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

June 6, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stuart Simon, County Atty. and John H. Moynahan, Jr., Asst. County Atty., for appellants.

Weiner & Rubin, Miami, for appellee.

Before PEARSON, HENDRY and KEHOE, JJ.


PEARSON, Judge.

The defendants, Metropolitan Dade County and its bus driver, Marcos R. Correa, appeal a final judgment pursuant to a jury verdict, which awarded damages to the plaintiff, Vilma Asusta, who was a bus passenger. The points on appeal urge error concerning (1) the denial of defendants' motion for a directed verdict, (2) the denial of defendants' requested instruction that the bus driver had no duty to wait for a passenger to sit down before putting the...

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