Florida District Courts of Appeal, 1975

Vender v. Statewide Refrigeration & Air Conditioning, Inc.

Vender v. Statewide Refrigeration & Air Conditioning, Inc.
Florida District Courts of Appeal · Decided February 4, 1975 · Barkdull, Hendry, Pearson
307 So. 2d 872; 1975 Fla. App. LEXIS 14664 (Southern Reporter, Second Series)

Vender v. Statewide Refrigeration & Air Conditioning, Inc.

Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

Affirmed upon the principle that:

“ . . . where, as here, an independent force or act intervenes to bring about a result that the defendant’s negligence would not otherwise have produced, it is generally held that the defendant is liable only where the intervening force or act was reasonably foreseeable.”

Rawls v. Ziegler, Fla.1958, 107 So.2d 601.

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