DEPRIEST v. GREESON

CASE NO. 1D16-0807.

213 So.3d 1022 (2017)

Samuel M. DEPRIEST and Dorothy Depriest, Appellants, v. Richard GREESON, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Christian W. Schnitzspahn, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied April 6, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Erin Pogue Newell and Roy D. Wasson of Wasson & Associates, Chartered, Miami; Henry Lawrence Perry and H. Les McFatter of Perry & Young, P.A., Panama City, for Appellants.

Michael W. Kehoe of Quintairos, Prieto, Wood & Boyer, P.A., Pensacola, for Appellee.


In the gap between a decedent's death and the appointment of a personal representative, does Florida's dangerous instrumentality doctrine make the estate vicariously liable for damages that the decedent's child allegedly caused while driving the decedent's car? On the specific facts presented here, which are undisputed, the trial court...

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