WITT v. DOLPHIN RESEARCH CENTER, INC.

No. 91-151.

582 So.2d 27 (1991)

Walt WITT and Arlene Lovas, Appellants, v. DOLPHIN RESEARCH CENTER, INC., Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied July 9, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hoppe, Beckmeyer & Stokes and Tom Beckmeyer, for appellants.

Richard A. Sherman and Rosemary Wilder, Fort Lauderdale, for appellee.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and NESBITT and COPE, JJ.


SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

The plaintiffs-appellants were allegedly injured by two porpoises they had joined in a so-called "dolphin experience" operated by the defendant Dolphin Research Center, Inc. In a two count complaint, they alleged that the defendant (a) had been negligent in controlling and operating the attraction and (b) was strictly liable for injuries caused by the dolphins as a "keeper" of "wild animals." The defendant moved for and was awarded summary judgment...

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