Florida District Courts of Appeal, 1980

Vassallo v. Florida Power & Light Co.

Vassallo v. Florida Power & Light Co.
Florida District Courts of Appeal · Decided June 24, 1980 · Bitt, Hendry, Hubbart, Nes
384 So. 2d 970; 1980 Fla. App. LEXIS 16926 (Southern Reporter, Second Series)

Vassallo v. Florida Power & Light Co.

Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

The final judgment under review is affirmed upon a holding that the trial court properly directed a verdict for the defendant Florida Power and Light Company and excluded certain evidence at trial because: (a) the plaintiff Lorraine Vassallo and the plaintiff’s decedent Nicholas Vassallo were as a matter of law trespassers or at least uninvited licensees at the time of the subject accident, and (b) the defendant Florida Power and Light Company as landowner did not, as a matter of law, breach its duty to the said plaintiff and plaintiff’s decedent as trespassers or uninvited licensees in this cause. Wood v. Camp, 284 So.2d 691 (Fla. 1973); Hix v. Billen, 284 So.2d 209, 210 (Fla. 1973); Bovino v. Metropolitan Dade County, 378 So.2d 50 (Fla.3d DCA 1979); Libby v. West Coast Rock Co., 308 So.2d 602 (Fla.2d DCA 1975); cert. den. 325 So.2d 6 (Fla. 1975).

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