ADOPTIE v. SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH COMPANY

Nos. 82-829, 82-830.

426 So.2d 1162 (1983)

Steven Francisco ADOPTIE, a Minor, by and through His Mother and Next Friend, Marlene Adoptie, and Marlene Adoptie, Individually, Appellants, v. SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY, and Florida Power and Light Company, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

February 8, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Horton, Perse & Ginsberg and Edward Perse, Lawrence Rodgers, Miami, for appellants.

Shutts & Bowen and Phillip J. Sheehe and Andrew L. Gordon; Steel, Hector & Davis and Norman A. Coll and Andrew E. Grigsby, Miami, for appellees.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and NESBITT and FERGUSON, JJ.


SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

Adoptie was injured in an intersection accident which was allegedly caused by the inoperability of the traffic light. He sued Florida Power & Light and Southern Bell asserting that the defect resulted from the fact that, some time before, the work crews of either or both negligently cut the power line which supplied electricity to the signal. We affirm the dismissal of the complaint as against the appellees on the ground that their alleged...

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