District Court of Appeal of Florida

Summary judgment for defendant on liability in a personal injury negligence case arising out of injuries sustained by an admittedly intoxicated plaintiff engaged in trimming her trees is reversed where there was a factual dispute as to the apportionment of negligence, and the trial judge lacked authority to make a ruling on the issue as a matter of law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/12/2006
• Published 07/12/2006

Judges

• FARMER, J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert Garven, Coral Springs, and Charles Mancuso of Thomas & Pearl, Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Nancy W. Gregoire and Matthew D. Klein of Bunnell Woulfe Kirschbaum Keller McIntyre Gregoire & Klein, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellee.