CORTES v. DELTA AIR LINES, INC.

No. 93-1978.

638 So.2d 108 (1994)

Blanca CORTES, Appellant, v. DELTA AIR LINES, INC., a Delaware Corporation, and Avianca, Inc., a New York corporation, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied July 5, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joe N. Unger, Ian G. Osur, Miami, for appellant.

Condon & Forsyth and Michael J. Holland and Steven C. Rickman, New York City, Kimbrell & Hamann and Thomas C. Woods and Russell A. Yagel, Miami, Barwick, Dillian & Lambert and Thomas E. Ice, Miami Shores, for appellees.

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


SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

On January 2, 1991, a sixty-two-year-old infirm lady named Blanca Cortes grew dizzy, fell and was injured on an escalator at the Miami International Airport as she was about to board an Avianca flight to Colombia. Her trip had begun on a Delta flight from Montreal, Canada, where she had purchased a roundtrip ticket, with intermediate stops in Boston, Miami and Colombia. Before her flight from Montreal, she requested and received an assurance...

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