CARTER v. CROSS

No. 78-2052.

373 So.2d 81 (1979)

Jennie CARTER, Appellant, v. Justine E. CROSS, Sam Cross and Cosmopolitan Mutual Insurance Company, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

July 24, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald Piken and Barry M. Snyder, North Miami, for appellant.

Pyszka, Kessler & Adams and Thomas M. Carney, Miami, for appellees.

Before PEARSON, HUBBART and SCHWARTZ, JJ.


HUBBART, Judge.

The sole issue presented for review by this appeal is centered on when a cause of action for personal injury sounding in negligence and arising from an automobile accident accrues for purposes of the statute of limitations under Section 95.11(3)(a), Florida Statutes (1977). We hold that the action accrues and the statute of limitations begins to run from the time the injury sustained was first inflicted on the plaintiff and not from the time the full...

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