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NEWSOME v. DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS

No. AO-320.

435 So.2d 887 (1983)

Ivia Jean NEWSOME, Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS of the STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied August 16, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joel D. Eaton of Podhurst, Orseck, Parks, Josefsberg, Eaton, Meadow & Olin, Miami, and Wagner, Cunningham, Vaughan & McLaughlin, Tampa, for appellant.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Pamela L. Shields, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellees.

NIMMONS, Judge.

Appellant Newsome was raped and battered by one Eddie Dixon, a 17-year-old Florida Department of Corrections (DOC) inmate who, shortly before, had left a Florida Department of Transportation (DOT) work crew without permission during the lunch hour on September 11, 1980. Newsome filed suit for damages against DOC and DOT for negligence in the supervision and control of Dixon. The trial court granted DOC's motion for summary judgment on the grounds of...

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