MICHELIN TIRE CORP. v. ROOSE

No. 4-86-2018.

531 So.2d 361 (1988)

MICHELIN TIRE CORPORATION, Appellant, v. Susan Ann ROOSE, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied October 18, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kimbrell & Hamann, P.A., Miami, and Jane Kreusler-Walsh and Larry Klein of Klein & Beranek, P.A., West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Montgomery, Searcy & Denney, P.A., and Philip M. Burlington of Edna L. Caruso, P.A., West Palm Beach, for appellee.


DOWNEY, Judge.

Appellant, Michelin Tire Corporation, a New York corporation, timely appeals from a final judgment entered against it pursuant to a jury verdict, which found that a tire allegedly manufactured by appellant was defective and a legal cause of the death of Brian E. Roose, the husband of appellee, Susan A. Roose. The jury awarded $1,000,000 in damages, but found that appellant was forty percent negligent and the deceased was sixty percent negligent.

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