KLEIN, J.
Appellant plaintiff, a passenger on appellee's cruise ship, was injured by a rope thrown while the ship was docking. We reverse the trial court's direction of a verdict in favor of the defendant.
While plaintiff was sitting on a lounge chair on the third deck, she was struck by the weighted end of a rope thrown by an employee of Port Everglades, which is not a party to this appeal. These ropes, or heaving lines, were being thrown from the dock to...
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