METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY v. YELVINGTON

No. 79-1588.

392 So.2d 911 (1980)

METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY, Appellant, v. Gloria Y. YELVINGTON and James O. Yelvington, Her Husband, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

May 13, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Ginsburg, County Atty. and Thomas Goldstein, Asst. County Atty., for appellant.

James O. Nelson, Miami, for appellees.

Before SCHWARTZ and DANIEL S. PEARSON, JJ., and VANN, HAROLD R. (Ret.), Associate Judge.


DANIEL S. PEARSON, Judge.

Mrs. Yelvington slipped on an algae-coated boat launching ramp at Pelican Harbor, a recreational facility operated and maintained by Metropolitan Dade County.1 She and her husband sued the County for damages arising from her injuries. A jury returned a verdict in favor of these plaintiffs and specially found that Mrs. Yelvington was sixty per cent negligent. From the trial court's judgment thereon both sides have...

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