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POLACKWICH v. FLA. POWER & LIGHT CO.

Nos. 89-02224, 89-02292.

576 So.2d 892 (1991)

Stephanie J. POLACKWICH, As Personal Representative of the Estate of Jonathan Richards, Deceased, and Alan S. Polackwich, Sr., As Personal Representative of the Estate of Robert J. Polackwich, Deceased, Appellants, v. FLORIDA POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY and the O'Day Corporation, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

March 22, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christian D. Searcy of Searcy, Denney, Scarola, Barnhart & Shipley, P.A., West Palm Beach, Tony Cunningham, of Wagner, Cunningham, Vaughan and McLaughlin, Tampa, and Russell S. Bohn of Edna L. Caruso, P.A., West Palm Beach, for appellants.

Sylvia H. Walbolt and C. Craig Holley of Carlton, Fields, Ward, Emmanuel, Smith & Cutler, P.A., Tampa, and C. Steven Yerrid and Christopher S. Knopik of Stagg, Hardy & Yerrid, P.A., Tampa, for appellee Florida Power and Light Co.

No appearance for appellee O'Day Corp.

PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal from a nonfinal order transferring a consolidated wrongful death case from Hillsborough County to Palm Beach County based on improper venue. We reverse.

The lawsuits, which were filed in Hillsborough County, arose from the electrocution of a father and his stepson when their rented catamaran came in contact with power lines near Boca Grande Causeway in Charlotte County. Appellants sued appellee, Florida Power and Light Company...

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