MEISTER v. FISHER

No. 64223.

462 So.2d 1071 (1984)

Mildred MEISTER, et al., Petitioners, v. Paul FISHER, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied February 26, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sams, Gerstein & Ward, P.A., and Sam Daniels and Mark Hicks of Daniels & Hicks, Miami, for petitioners.

Gordon James, III and Joseph S. Kashi of Conrad, Scherer & James, Fort Lauderdale, for respondents.

Larry Klein, West Palm Beach, amicus curiae for The Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers.

Robert D. Peltz and Rossman & Baumberger, P.A., Miami, amicus curiae for Mary Kurtz.


ADKINS, Justice.

The Fourth District Court of Appeal certified the following question to this Court as one of great public importance:

Should golf carts be included within the dangerous instrumentality doctrine enunciated in Southern Cotton Oil Co. v. Anderson, 80 Fla. 441, 86 So. 629 (1920), and as expanded in Reid v. Associated Engineering of Osceola, Inc., 295 So.2d 125 (Fla. 4th DCA 1974)?

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