SHECKLER v. CITY OF MT. DORA

No. 80-640.

395 So.2d 1188 (1981)

H. Max SHECKLER, Appellant, v. CITY OF MT. DORA and Continental Insurance Company, a New York Corporation, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

Rehearing Denied April 3, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederick, Wooten & Honeywell, Orlando, and L. Edward McClellen, Jr., of Pattillo, MacKay & McKeever, P.A., Ocala, for appellant.

Robert A. Hannah of Pitts, Eubanks & Ross, P.A., Orlando, for appellees.


DAUKSCH, Chief Judge.

The issue in this case is whether the trial judge properly excluded evidence relating to the responsibility on the part of the city for appellant's injuries which occurred when the lid of a trash dumpster fell upon him. It was the city's position that it was the manufacturer's fault the lid struck the appellant, or that it was appellant's fault himself. Appellant attempted to elicit testimony from an expert witness relating to "how this instability...

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