HEIST v. LOCK & GUNSMITH, INC.

No. AJ-24.

417 So.2d 1041 (1982)

Martha Jean HEIST, As Personal Representative of the Estate of Floyd Douglas Heist, Sr., Appellant, v. LOCK & GUNSMITH, INC. and Travelers' Insurance Co., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied August 31, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. David Mann and Thomas C. Staples of Mann, Lang & Staples, Pensacola, for appellant.

A.G. Condon, Jr., and Philip A. Bates of Emmanuel, Sheppard & Condon, Pensacola, for appellees.


ROBERT P. SMITH, Jr., Chief Judge.

We affirm the trial court's order dismissing appellant's third amended complaint, with prejudice, for failure to state a cause of action arising out of the defendant gun dealer's sale of a .38 caliber pistol to one Bullard in circumstances that are alleged to have placed the dealer on notice that the real purchaser was Bullard's companion in the store, Fitzpatrick. Fitzpatrick used the gun 10 days later in a crime and, while doing...

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