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PAIT v. FORD MOTOR COMPANY

No. 69917.

515 So.2d 1278 (1987)

Sharon PAIT, Petitioner, v. FORD MOTOR COMPANY, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

December 3, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James B. Tilghman, Jr. of Stewart, Tilghman, Fox & Bianchi, P.A., and James C. Blecke, Miami, for petitioner.

Sharon Lee Stedman of Rumberger, Kirk, Caldwell, Cabaniss & Burke, Orlando, John M. Thomas, Office of the General Counsel, Ford Motor Co., Dearborn, Mich., and Edward T. O'Donnell of Mershon, Sawyer, Johnston, Dunwody & Cole, Miami, for respondent.

Wayne Hogan of Brown, Terrell, Hogan & Ellis, P.A., Jacksonville, amicus curiae for The Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers.

Jack W. Shaw, Jr. of Mathews, Osborne, McNatt, Gobelman & Cobb, Jacksonville, amicus curiae for Florida Defense Lawyers Ass'n.

Joseph C. Segor, Melvin A. Rubin, and Jerry B. Schreiber, Miami, amicus curiae for Robert P. Wallis.

Jaime D. Liang of Field, Granger, Santry & Mitchell, P.A., Tallahassee, amicus curiae for Albert B. Verhine, Jr., a minor, A. Brennis Verhine, his legal guardian, and A. Brennis Verhine and Glenda L. Verhine, individually.

GRIMES, Justice.

Pursuant to article V, section 3(b)(4) of the Florida Constitution, we review the decision of the Fifth District Court of Appeal upon questions certified to be of great public importance. Pait v. Ford Motor Co., 500 So.2d 743 (Fla. 5th DCA 1987).

Sharon Pait's husband was killed on July 22, 1984, while operating a tractor manufactured and delivered more than twelve years earlier by Ford Motor Company...

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