BABRAB, INC. v. ALLEN

No. 80-1366.

408 So.2d 610 (1981)

BABRAB, INC., d/b/a The Gemini Club and National Union Fire Insurance Company, Appellants, v. Pearl ALLEN, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied January 28, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry Klein, and Adams, Coogler, Watson & Smith, West Palm Beach, for appellants.

Earl L. Maxwell, Jr., West Palm Beach, for appellee.


PER CURIAM.

A tavern owner appeals the denial of his motion for a directed verdict in a suit filed against him by one bar patron who was attacked by another. We reverse.

There is no evidence whatever in the record that the attacker had ever before created a disturbance at or near this bar. Even on the evening in question, there was no suggestion of anticipated violence. The victim admitted that the attacker had made no threatening remarks prior to the attack...

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