RYDER TRUCK RENTAL, INC. v. PARTINGTON

No. 96-1926.

710 So.2d 575 (1998)

RYDER TRUCK RENTAL, INC., a Florida corporation, Metallic Engineering Co., Inc., a Florida corporation, and Jon C. Ball, Appellants/cross-appellees, v. James PARTINGTON, Appellee/cross-appellant.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing and Clarification Denied March 23, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David F. Cooney and Pamela R. Kittrell of Cooney, Mattson, Lance, Blackburn Richards & O'Connor, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellants/cross-appellees.

David E. French and John A. Willis of David & French, P.A., Boca Raton, and Philip M. Burlington of Caruso, Burlington, Bohn & Compiani, P.A., West Palm Beach, for appellee/cross-appellant.


STONE, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff and an employee of Metallic Engineering were involved in a collision on 1-95. The employee, who was intoxicated at more than twice the legal limit, hit a light post and careened across three lanes of traffic, broadsiding Plaintiff's vehicle and pushing it across the median and into the lanes of oncoming traffic.

We find no error in the trial court's directing a verdict for Plaintiff on the charge that the plaintiff-driver was...

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