SCHMIDGALL v. JONES BOATYARD, INC.

No. 87-563.

526 So.2d 1042 (1988)

Christian SCHMIDGALL, Appellant, v. JONES BOATYARD, INC., Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

June 21, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip M. Gerson and Edward S. Schwartz, Miami, for appellant.

Hayden & Milliken and Ann Thomas and Robert W. Blanck, Miami, for appellee.

Before BARKDULL, HUBBART and FERGUSON, JJ.


HUBBART, Judge.

This is an appeal by the plaintiff from an adverse final summary judgment entered in a negligence action arising from the loss of equipment from a boat stored at the defendant's boatyard. The central question presented is whether a successor-bailor of personal property has standing to bring a negligence action against the bailee for loss or damage to the bailed property while in the possession of the bailee. We hold that such a successor-bailor has...

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