Supreme Court of Florida

Where a victim was struck and killed by a truck in an area where a streetlight was inoperative, the streetlight maintenance company owed the plaintiffs a legally recognized duty to use reasonable care in maintaining the streetlights.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/02/2004
• Published 01/02/2004

Judges

• SHAW, Senior Justice.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William T. Stone of Cole, Stone, Stoudemire & Morgan, Jacksonville, FL, for Petitioner., Charles T. Wiggins and R. Andrew Kent of Beggs & Lane, LLP, Pensacola, FL, for Gulf Power Company, Amicus Curiae., Joel D. Eaton of Podhurst, Orseck, Josefsberg, Eaton, Meadow, Olin & Perwin, P.A., Miami, FL, for the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers, Amicus Curiae., Timothy C. Conley and David W. McCreadie of Lau, Lane, Pieper, Conley & McCreadie, P.A., Tampa, FL, for Tampa Electric Company and Edison Electric Institute, Amici Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Stephen J. Pajcic and Thomas F. Slater of Pajcic & Pajcic, P.A., William A. Bald of Dale, Bald, Showalter & Mercier, P.A., and Dennis R. Schutt of Schutt Humphries, Jacksonville, FL, for Respondents.