METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY v. TRIBBLE

Nos. 90-2536, 91-2037 and 91-2059.

616 So.2d 59 (1993)

METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY, Petitioner/Appellant, v. Kelly TRIBBLE, as Personal Representative of Angelina Tribble, deceased, et al., Respondents/Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied May 4, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Ginsburg, County Atty., and Eric K. Gressman and James J. Allen, Asst. County Attys., for petitioner/appellant.

Harold Long, Jr., Kubicki, Draper, Gallagher & McGrane and Manuel A. Mesa, Miami, for respondents/appellees.

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


NESBITT, Judge.

Plaintiff, Kelly Tribble, as personal representative of Angelina Tribble, deceased, filed an amended complaint alleging the county failed to properly maintain an intersection traffic light, at which the van the decedent was riding in was struck by a taxi cab. The traffic device malfunctioned because it is undisputed that the red light bulb on the device was burned out in the direction from which the taxi approached the device. The cab driver admitted...

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