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SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DIST. v. TAYLOR

No. 95-547.

676 So.2d 11 (1996)

SOUTH FLORIDA WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT, a political subdivision of the State of Florida, Appellant, v. Alan TAYLOR, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

May 29, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bunnell, Woulfe, Keller & Gillespie and Gary M. Farmer, Jr. and Nancy Wood Gregoire and Richard Thomas Woulfe, Fort Lauderdale; Popham, Haik, Schnobrich & Kaufman and Paul L. Nettleton, Miami, for appellant.

Rossman & Baumberger; Cooper & Wolfe and Sharon Wolfe and Maureen E. Lefebvre, Miami, for appellee.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and JORGENSON and GODERICH, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

The plaintiff-appellee recovered a jury verdict and judgment against the South Florida Water Management District for injuries incurred when, while a passenger in a boat traveling on a district canal, he was struck on the head by a low hanging footbridge. We reverse with directions to enter judgment for the appellant both because the District is protected by sovereign immunity from the liability asserted, Department of Transp. v. Konney, ...

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