AVIS RENT-A-CAR SYSTEMS, INC. v. ABRAHANTES

No. 86-1687.

517 So.2d 25 (1987)

AVIS RENT-A-CAR SYSTEMS, INC. and Insurance Company of North America, Appellants, v. Armando ABRAHANTES, Carmen Abrahantes, James Exon and Joan Exon, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

As Amended on Denial of Rehearing January 22, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wicker, Smith, Blomqvist, Tutan, O'Hara, McCoy, Graham & Lane and Shelley H. Leinicke, Ft. Lauderdale, for appellants.

Floyd, Pearson, Richman, Greer, Weil, Zack & Brumbaugh and Scott D. Sheftall and Bertha Claire Lee and Sally R. Doerner, Miami, for appellees.

Before BARKDULL, NESBITT and BASKIN, JJ.


BARKDULL, Judge.

On June 12, 1981, while vacationing in the Cayman Islands, Armando Abrahantes and James Exon were injured when they were thrown from the back seat of a jeep CJ-5. This jeep had been rented from Cico Rent-a-Car System, Ltd. ("Cico") earlier in the day by Michael Arthur, who was the driver at the time of this single car accident. Cico was operating under a franchise license with Avis, utilizing the Avis marketing...

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