FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT CO. v. MACIAS BY MACIAS

Nos. 85-488, 85-499, 85-986 and 85-987.

507 So.2d 1113 (1987)

FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY and State of Florida, Department of Transportation, Appellants/Cross-Appellees, v. Ileana MACIAS, a Minor, BY Her Mother and Guardian, Neisis MACIAS, Appellee/Cross-Appellant.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

On Motion for Rehearing Denied June 23, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steel, Hector & Davis and Patricia A. Seitz, Daniels & Hicks and Mark Hicks, William H. Peeples, Richard M. Gale, Miami, for appellants/cross-appellees.

Haddad, Josephs & Jack and Gary Gerrard, Coral Gables, for appellee/crossappellant.

Before HENDRY, NESBITT and FERGUSON, JJ.


NESBITT, Judge.

Florida Power and Light Company (FPL) and the Department of Transportation (DOT), defendants below, bring these consolidated appeals from a judgment of $2,668,000 in favor of Ileana Macias. We reverse the judgment under review.

Ileana, by her mother, Neisis Macias, brought this lawsuit for injuries received as the result of a car accident. Ileana's father, Jesus Macias, was driving the family car east on Okeechobee Road, when the wheel left...

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