RANGER NATIONWIDE, INC. v. COOK

Nos. 86-2542, 86-2597, 86-2599, 86-2706, 87-190, 87-2532 and 87-2533.

519 So.2d 1087 (1988)

RANGER NATIONWIDE, INC., Santo Genkerell, a & S Trucking, Inc., and Dewline, Inc., Appellants, v. Judy COOK, Individually and As Personal Representative of the Estate of Earnest Robinson Smith, Jr., et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

As Amended on Denial of Rehearing March 8, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeanne Heyward; Welcher & Clark; Kubicki, Bradley, Draper, Gallagher & McGrane and Betsy Gallagher and Kathryn S. Pecko, Miami, for appellants.

Floyd, Pearson, Richman, Greer, Weil, Zack & Brumbaugh and Herman J. Russomanno and Bertha Claire Lee and Gary S. Betensky and Sally R. Doerner, Miami, for appellees.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and BASKIN and DANIEL S. PEARSON, JJ.


SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

On August 26, 1985, Santo Genkerell, an interstate professional truck driver who is a New York citizen, was operating a tractor trailer on I-95 in North Carolina when it was involved in a collision causing three deaths. At the time, Genkerell was travelling from Savannah, Georgia, to New Brunswick, New Jersey, pursuant to a trip lease arranged by Dewline, Inc., a Maryland corporation not authorized to do business in Florida. The tractor was...

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