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WEISSBERG v. CITY OF MIAMI BEACH

Nos. 78-2095, 79-1929.

383 So.2d 1158 (1980)

Lilyan WEISSBERG and Sidney Weissberg, Appellants, v. CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

June 3, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stabinski, Funt, Levine & Vega, Miami, and Regina F. Zalonker, for appellants.

Preddy, Kutner & Hardy and Howard K. Cherna, Miami, for appellees.

Before SCHWARTZ, NESBITT and DANIEL PEARSON, JJ.

NESBITT, Judge.

The issue raised in this appeal is the scope of sovereign immunity of a municipality. Mrs. Weissberg was involved in a two-car accident at the intersection of Sixteenth Street and Lennox Avenue in Miami Beach. At the site, Southern Bell Telephone Company was working on its line through an open manhole. Visibility at the intersection was obscured by Southern Bell's equipment. The city of Miami Beach regularly requires a utility to employ a uniformed...

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