LYNX TRANSPORTATION v. ATKINSON

No. 98-661.

720 So.2d 600 (1998)

LYNX TRANSPORTATION, etc., Appellant, v. Michael ATKINSON, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

Rehearing Denied November 19, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Janice L. Merrill and Reginald D. Hicks of Perry & Hicks, P.A., Orlando, for Appellant.

R. Lee Dorough, Orlando, for Appellee.


PETERSON, Judge.

Lynx Transportation appeals a final judgment after a jury found that it was responsible for injuries received by Michael Atkinson in a bus-automobile accident. Lynx argues on appeal that the trial court erred when it instructed the jury that a rebuttable presumption of negligence was created when the Lynx bus hit the rear of Atkinson's automobile. Lynx correctly states that the presumption exists when the trial court considers a motion for directed...

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