BENNETT M. LIFTER, INC. v. VARNADO

No. 84-251.

480 So.2d 1336 (1985)

BENNETT M. LIFTER, INC., Appellant, v. Louis Coleman VARNADO, a Minor, by and through His Mother and Next Friend Andrea VARNADO, and Andrea Varnado, Individually, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

November 26, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Preddy, Kutner & Hardy and G. William Bissett, Miami, for appellant.

Joe N. Unger, Proenza & White, Miami, for appellees.

Before HUBBART, DANIEL S. PEARSON and FERGUSON, JJ.


FERGUSON, Judge.

This appeal takes us again into the murky waters of proximate causation. The main issue is whether the question of proximate cause should have been taken away from the jury and decided as a matter of law.

Louis Varnado, a four-year-old child, sustained serious bodily burns from boiling water carried in a pot by his grandmother when he collided with her. The grandmother was carrying water from the kitchen to the bathroom of the house which...

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