DEL RISCO v. JEM CONSTRUCTION CORP.

No. 83-1037.

452 So.2d 54 (1984)

Francisco DEL RISCO and Mirta R. Del Risco, Appellants, v. JEM CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION, Kent Insurance Company and Vedado Development Corporation and Hartford Accident & Indemnity Company, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied July 9, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walton, Lantaff, Schroeder & Carson and Kathleen M. O'Connor and George Chesrow, Miami, for appellants.

Underwood, Gillis, Karcher & Valle; Rick Wingate, Kathleen V. McCarthy; Marlow, Shofi, Ortmayer, Smith, Connell & Valerius and Joseph H. Lowe, Miami, for appellees.

Before BASKIN, DANIEL S. PEARSON and JORGENSON, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

We affirm the granting of the defendants' motions for summary judgment by the trial court upon a holding that the plaintiff's injury was proximately caused by the unforeseeable intervening actions of a third party and the plaintiff. These intervening causes led to the highly unusual event which resulted in the plaintiff's injury. See Stahl v. Metropolitan Dade County, 438 So.2d 14 (Fla. 3d DCA 1983); Fellows...

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