Florida District Courts of Appeal, 1976

Trammel v. Reliance Insurance Co.

Trammel v. Reliance Insurance Co.
Florida District Courts of Appeal · Decided March 26, 1976 · Cross, Mager, Owen
328 So. 2d 868; 1976 Fla. App. LEXIS 13990 (Southern Reporter, Second Series)

Trammel v. Reliance Insurance Co.

Opinion of the Court

CROSS, Judge.

Appellant, Samuel J. Trammel, seeks review of a final judgment entered in favor *869of appellees, Larry Frady Crane Service and Reliance Insurance Company, in an action seeking damages for personal injuries sustained by the appellant as a result of alleged negligence in the operation of a crane.

Upon review of the record on appeal and after consideration of the briefs submitted by counsel for the respective parties, we determine that the trial court erroneously instructed the jury that assumption of risk was a complete bar to recovery in a negligence action. The assumption of risk doctrine has been completely abrogated by the adoption of the comparative negligence principle. Rea v. Leadership Housing, Inc., 312 So.2d 818 (Fla.App. 1975). Accordingly, the judgment entered in favor of appel-lees, Larry Frady Crane Service and Reliance Insurance Company, is reversed and the cause is remanded for a new trial.'

Reversed and remanded.

OWEN and MAGER, JJ., concur.

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