SULLIVAN v. SILVER PALM PROPERTIES, INC.

No. 74190.

558 So.2d 409 (1990)

Mary Sharon SULLIVAN, Petitioner, v. SILVER PALM PROPERTIES, INC., Respondent.

Supreme Court of Florida.

March 8, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe N. Unger of the Law Offices of Joe N. Unger, P.A., Miami, and Robert E. Schack, P.A., Coral Gables, for petitioner.

Michael J. Murphy of Gaebe, Murphy, Mullen & Antonelli, Coral Gables, for respondent.


BARKETT, Judge.

We have for review Silver Palm Properties, Inc. v. Sullivan, 541 So.2d 624 (Fla. 3d DCA 1988), in which the district court certified the following question of great public importance:

Does a landowner have a duty to retard the subterranean root growth of its trees which are located adjacent to a public right of way?

Id. at 628.1 We answer the question in...

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