CITY OF TAMPA v. JONES

No. AU-78.

448 So.2d 1150 (1984)

CITY OF TAMPA, Self-Insured, Appellant, v. Samuel JONES, Jr., Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied May 9, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen M. Barbas, Asst. City Atty., Tampa, for appellant.

Susan R. Whaley of Macfarlane, Ferguson, Allison & Kelly, Lawrence Anzalone, Tampa, for appellee.


THOMPSON, Judge.

The employer appeals a compensation order holding that an injury sustained by the claimant while he was participating in a city league basketball game was compensable. We reverse.

The claimant, a police officer employed by the City of Tampa (City), is a leader and active member of a basketball team known as the Tampa Police Department basketball team. The team has been in existence since prior to 1974, the year claimant joined the Tampa Police...

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