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STRESSCON INTERN., INC. v. HELMS

Nos. 79-222, 79-232 and 79-235.

390 So.2d 139 (1980)

STRESSCON INTERNATIONAL, INC., a Florida Corporation, Tripp Crane Service, Inc. and Conerec, Inc., a Florida Corporation, Appellants, v. Susan E. HELMS, As Personal Representative of the Estate of Lawrence Helms, Deceased, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

November 12, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lane, Mitchell & Harris and Byron B. Mathews, Jr.; Virgin, Whittle, Garbis & Gilmour; Corlett, Merritt, Killian & Sikes and Gerald E. Rosser, Miami, for appellants.

Podhurst, Orseck & Parks and Walter H. Beckham, Jr. and Joel D. Eaton; Spence, Payne, Masington & Grossman, for appellee.

Before BARKDULL, HENDRY and SCHWARTZ, JJ.

HENDRY, Judge.

We review a $2.1 million judgment entered upon a directed verdict. We affirm.

The facts are these: Larry Helms was working on the top floor of a building under construction, in a ceilingless room left open for the placement of a large air conditioning unit; one of several four-ton slabs of precast concrete was being craned over the building to the other side when the nylon straps which held it gave way; Helms was decapitated when the slab fell...

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