LEE v. SOUTHERN BELL TEL. & TEL. CO.

Nos. 88-1747, 88-1993 and 88-2255.

561 So.2d 373 (1990)

Cecil E. LEE and Irma M. Lee, Appellants, v. SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied June 4, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. Michael McLeod of Kerrigan, Estess & Rankin, Pensacola, and Joel S. Perwin of Podhurst, Orseck, Josefsberg, Eaton, Meadow, Olin & Perwin, Miami, for appellants.

J. Nixon Daniel, III, of Beggs & Lane, Pensacola, for appellee.


BARFIELD, Judge.

We agree with appellants that the trial court abused its discretion in directing the verdict for the defendant in this personal injury suit, and in alternatively granting the motion for new trial on the grounds that the verdict was "contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence" and the damage award was "shocking to the judicial conscience."

Cecil Lee and his wife sued Southern Bell for injuries he sustained when its flagman directed him...

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