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ALVES v. ADLER BUILT INDUSTRIES, INC.

Nos. 77-1363, 77-1364, 78-45 and 78-106.

366 So.2d 802 (1979)

Elvin ALVES and Alicia Alves, Appellants, v. ADLER BUILT INDUSTRIES, INC., a Florida Corporation, North Causeway Townhouses, Inc., a Florida Corporation, and Morton Adler, Individually, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied February 12, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Horton, Perse & Ginsberg and Arnold R. Ginsberg, Miami, Robert Sussman, Hialeah, for appellants.

Frates, Floyd, Pearson, Stewart, Richman & Greer and Scott D. Sheftall; Marlow, Shofi, Ortmayer, Smith & Spangler; Adams & Ward and Amy Shield Levine, Miami, Sidney B. Shapiro, North Miami Beach, for appellees.

Before HENDRY, BARKDULL and KEHOE, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

These consolidated appeals question the propriety of three summary judgments in a negligence action. Joyce Alves, a two-year-old child, drowned while playing in and about a sand pile adjacent to a lake on property next to her parents' home.

We affirm because the negligence of the defendants, if any (which we do not rule upon), was not the proximate cause of the accident. The negligence on the part of the parents in failing to properly supervise...

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