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SELFE v. SMITH

No. UU-238.

397 So.2d 348 (1981)

Phillip Guy SELFE and Brenda Selfe, Appellants, v. J. Orson SMITH, Jr., David Willis Smith and the Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied May 11, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. Ralph Smith, Jr., of Peeples, Earl, Smith, Moore & Blank, P.A., Tallahassee, for appellants.

A. Russell Bobo, David W. Spicer and Douglas P. Jones, of McFarlain, Bobo, Sternstein, Wiley & Cassedy, P.A., Tallahassee, for appellees.

ROBERT P. SMITH, Jr., Judge.

The principal issue presented by the appeal is whether appellant Mrs. Selfe, who was injured simultaneously with her infant son in the impact of a motor vehicle collision, may recover for her mental distress over her child's permanent facial injury. We hold that she may not recover, and that the trial court correctly excluded proof of such damages. On defendants' cross-appeal the issue is whether the defendants, admittedly liable to the...

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