PONTE v. CSX TRANSPORTATION, INC.

No. 98-2679.

736 So.2d 790 (1999)

Robert PONTE, Appellant, v. CSX TRANSPORTATION, INC., a corporation, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

July 14, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mitchel, Haymes, & Brenner and Steven J. Mitchel, Miami, for appellant.

Heinrich, Gordon, Hargrove, Weihe & James, P.A., and John R. Hargrove, and John R. Kelso (Ft.Lauderdale), for appellee.

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


PER CURIAM.

Robert Ponte was injured at age fifteen while hopping aboard one of the appellee's slow moving trains without permission and attempting to cross from one car to another. We affirm the final summary judgment entered in favor of the appellee on the grounds that the appellee had no duty to warn Ponte, a trespasser or an "uninvited guest licensee", on its property of the open and obvious dangers of jumping onto its moving trains, see Florida E. Coast Ry...

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