GENERAL TEL. CO. OF FLORIDA v. CHOATE

No. 81-188.

409 So.2d 1101 (1982)

GENERAL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF FLORIDA, Appellant, v. David Cline CHOATE, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied February 24, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. Ronald Fraley, Charles P. Schropp and Raymond T. Elligett, Jr., of Shackleford, Farrior, Stallings & Evans, P.A., Tampa, for appellant.

Cone, Wagner, Nugent, Johnson, Hazouri & Roth, P.A., and Larry Klein, West Palm Beach and McKeown & Gamot, Palm Beach, for appellee.


CAMPBELL, Judge.

Appellee, a lineman, was awarded damages for personal injuries he sustained when he fell from a power pole and his back struck appellant's telephone pedestal terminal located next to the pole. The record is devoid of any evidence to support liability on the part of appellant to appellee for his injuries based solely on the location of appellant's pedestal terminal in relation to appellee's employer's power pole as constituting the proximate or legal...

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