HOWARD v. JACKSON COUNTY

Nos. 92-112, 92-153 and 92-164.

618 So.2d 320 (1993)

Joe HOWARD and Gayle Howard, As Survivors of Jeffrey Howard; and Joe Howard As Personal Representative of the Estate of Jeffrey Howard, Appellants, v. JACKSON COUNTY, Appellee. James ALDRIDGE and Etta Aldridge as parents and natural guardians, as well as legal guardians, of Jerrilyn Virginia Aldridge, an incompetent, and Jerrilyn Aldridge, individually, Appellants, v. JACKSON COUNTY, Appellee. Sallie N. IVEY, Appellant, v. JACKSON COUNTY, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied June 15, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold S. Richmond, Quincy, for Howards.

William H. Davis & James J. Dean, Wadsworth & Davis, Tallahassee, for Aldridges.

George J. Little, Marianna, for Ivey.

Craig A. Dennis and J. Bruce Bowman, Collins, Dennis & Truett, P.A., Tallahassee, for Jackson County.


MICKLE, Judge.

Appellants have consolidated their appeals from a jury verdict and final judgment finding the defendant, Jackson County ("County"), not liable in their consolidated negligence actions. The incident from which this case arose is a November 1987 collision of two vehicles driven by Jeffrey Howard and Sallie Ivey on a depressed section of two-lane County Road 162, on which a pool of water 25 feet long and 6 feet wide had formed. We reverse the judgment...

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