ANGLIN v. ST. OF FLA. DEPT. OF TRANSP.

Nos. AT-276, AT-277.

472 So.2d 784 (1985)

Cleopatra Gayle ANGLIN and Thomas P. Anglin, Her Husband, Appellants, v. STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, an Agency of the State of Florida, Appellee. Cleopatra Gayle ANGLIN and Thomas P. Anglin, Her Husband, Appellants, v. SEABOARD COAST LINE RAILROAD COMPANY, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied August 7, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bill Whitaker and Karl Koepke of Whitaker & Koepke, Orlando, for appellants.

Ronald W. Brooks of Brooks, Callahan & Phillips, Tallahassee, and DuBose Ausley and William M. Smith of Ausley, McMullin, McGehee, Carothers & Proctor, Tallahassee, for appellees.


ZEHMER, Judge.

In these consolidated personal injury cases, plaintiffs below appeal a final summary judgment, contending the trial court erred in ruling as a matter of law that appellees were insulated from liability by unforeseeable independent intervening causes. We reverse.

On the night of September 3, 1979, Cleopatra Anglin, her husband, and her brother were traveling through drizzling rain in a 1965 Chevrolet pickup truck. Upon crossing a Seaboard Coastline...

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