ST. PIERRE v. PUBLIC GAS CO.

No. 81-2025.

423 So.2d 949 (1982)

Acceus ST. PIERRE, Appellant, v. PUBLIC GAS COMPANY, a Domestic Corporation, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied January 12, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Keyfetz, Poses & Halpern and L. Barry Keyfetz, Miami, for appellant.

Conroy & Simberg, Hollywood; Daniels and Hicks and Sam Daniels, Miami, for appellee.

Before SCHWARTZ, DANIEL S. PEARSON and FERGUSON, JJ.


DANIEL S. PEARSON, Judge.

We are called upon to decide whether a trial court is authorized to order a new trial on liability conditioned on the plaintiff remitting fifty per cent of the amount of damages awarded by the jury based on the trial court's conclusion that the plaintiff's negligence was fifty per cent of the cause of plaintiff's damages, not, as the jury had found, twenty per cent.

Jacqueline St. Pierre, married and the mother of five children, was...

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