Florida District Courts of Appeal, 1992

Stetler v. Estate of Patterson

Florida District Courts of Appeal · Decided March 11, 1992 · Anstead, Glickstein, Letts

595 So. 2d 579; 1992 Fla. App. LEXIS 2651; 1992 WL 43290 (Southern Reporter, Second Series)

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Greenleaf v. Amerada Hess Corp. (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1993)

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Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

We reverse the summary judgment entered in favor of the defendant property owner in a negligence claim brought by appellant, a nurse who slipped and fell in a puddle of water on defendant’s premises.

The trial court granted summary judgment on the authority of Parrish v. Matthews, 548 So.2d 725 (Fla. 3d DCA 1989). Parrish approved a summary judgment against a cleaning person hired to clean up the very condition causing her to fall. Here, although there is some dispute about appellant’s duties as a nurse, we believe there was an issue of fact as to whether appellant was sufficiently on notice to expect unsafe conditions on appellee’s premises so as to bar or diminish her claim.

GLICKSTEIN, C.J., and ANSTEAD, J., concur. LETTS, J., dissents without opinion.

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