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CITY OF MIAMI v. HARRIS

Nos. 84-1679, 84-2525 and 85-1352.

490 So.2d 69 (1985)

The CITY OF MIAMI, Appellant, v. Geneva HARRIS, As Personal Representative of the Estate of Dorothea a/k/a Dorothea Rolle, Deceased, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

On Rehearing April 1, 1986.

On Second Motion for Rehearing June 3, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lucia A. Dougherty, City Atty., and Gisela Cardonne, Deputy City Atty., Simon, Schindler, Hurst & Sandberg and Thomas M. Pflaum, Miami, for appellant.

Feldman & Levy and Donald Feldman, Abramson & Magidson, Miami, for appellee.

Before BARKDULL, NESBITT and DANIEL S. PEARSON, JJ.

DANIEL S. PEARSON, Judge.

When police officers of the City of Miami, in high-speed pursuit of a vehicle being driven by a suspected burglar down a congested street, rammed the fleeing suspect's car, locked fenders with it, and forced it off the road into a bus bench on which Mrs. Doretha Rolle was sitting, Mrs. Rolle was killed. Geneva Harris, Mrs. Rolle's mother and personal representative, brought an action against the City on behalf of the estate and Mrs. Rolle...

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