FLORIDA EAST COAST RY. CO. v. GRIFFIN

No. 88-2273.

566 So.2d 1321 (1990)

FLORIDA EAST COAST RAILWAY CO. and Eddie Davis, Appellants/Cross-Appellees, v. Janie Ann GRIFFIN and Obadia Seymoure, As Personal Representatives of the Estate of Sharon Ivette Seymoure, a Minor, Deceased, Appellees/Cross-Appellants.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

As Clarified on Denial of Rehearing October 12, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Love Phipps of Corlett, Killian, Hardeman, McIntosh & Levi, P.A., Miami, for appellants/cross-appellees.

Richard R. Kirsch, Plantation, Edward R. Blumberg of Deutsch & Blumberg, P.A., and James C. Blecke, Miami, for appellees/cross-appellants.


STONE, Judge.

Florida East Coast Railway Co. and Eddie Davis appeal a judgment entered on a verdict for the wrongful death of a thirteen-year-old child. Sharon Seymoure, one of several children attempting to cross the Florida East Coast tracks, tripped on the tracks and was struck by a freight train. The location was in an urban area near a school where children often ran across ahead of oncoming trains. We reverse because of error in denying appellants' motion for...

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