GOODE v. WALT DISNEY WORLD CO.

No. 81-1431.

425 So.2d 1151 (1982)

Marietta GOODE, As Personal Representative of the Estate of Joel Goode, On Behalf of Marietta Goode, Individually, and Harry Goode, Individually, Appellants, v. WALT DISNEY WORLD CO., a Delaware Corporation; Columbia Casualty Company, and Lloyds of London, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

Rehearing Denied January 31, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip Freidin, P.A., and Joel D. Eaton of Podhurst, Orseck, Parks, Josefsberg, Eaton, Meadow & Olin, P.A., Miami, for appellants.

John L. O'Donnell, Jr., and Thomas B. DeWolf of DeWolf, Ward & Morris, P.A., Orlando, for appellees.


COBB, Judge.

We are asked to review a summary judgment entered by the trial court in favor of the defendant, Walt Disney World Co., in an action for the wrongful death by drowning of a four-year-old child, Joel Goode. Although the trial court found "that there are genuine issues of fact as to the negligent design of certain theme park facilities," it found these issues immaterial because of an absence of evidence of causal relationship between such negligence and...

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