PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE v. FISHERMAN'S PIER, INC.

No. 80-1711.

401 So.2d 1136 (1981)

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF the ESTATE OF John Edward STARLING, Etc., et al., Appellants, v. FISHERMAN'S PIER, INC., Etc. et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

July 15, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward A. Perse of Horton, Perse & Ginsberg, and Tew & Spittler, P.A., Miami, for appellants.

Larry Klein, and Pomeroy, Pomeroy, Betts & Pomeroy, West Palm Beach, for appellees.


LETTS, Chief Judge.

This appeal is predicated on the dismissal with prejudice of a complaint charging a corporation, which operated a commercial fishing pier, with negligence for failure to safeguard a passed-out drunk customer who was left lying near the ocean on the pier, by himself, in the early hours of the morning and rolled over into the water and drowned. We reverse.

The above facts involve gross conduct on the part of the man who drowned, perhaps exacerbated...

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