MATHEWS v. CITY OF ST. PETERSBURG

No. 80-1379.

400 So.2d 841 (1981)

Lula Mae MATHEWS, As Personal Representative of the Estate of Kasandra Anitra Swain, Deceased, Appellant, v. CITY OF ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA, a Municipal Corporation, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

July 8, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Garold L. Morlan, Tampa, for appellant.

Michael S. Davis, Chief Asst. City Atty., St. Petersburg, for appellee.


BOARDMAN, Judge.

Lula Mae Mathews, as personal representative of the estate of Kasandra Anitra Swain, deceased, appeals the dismissal of her complaint for wrongful death against the City of St. Petersburg. We reverse.

The complaint alleged that the deceased (appellant's daughter), a twenty-month-old child, fell into Booker Creek while playing in a nearby park, that she sustained injuries in this fall which resulted in her death approximately a month later...

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