H.J. Wilson Co. v. Collom

GRIMES, Acting Chief Judge.

This is a petition for writ of certiorari from an order denying a motion to dismiss a third party complaint.

During a period of localized flooding, Judith Collom and her daughter, April, were walking across private property in St. Pe-tersburg. They stepped into a storm sewer drainage ditch located on a city drainage easement and were sucked into a pipe and drowned. Bert Collom, as personal representative, brought a wrongful death action against the city, Jack J. Holton and H.J. Wilson Company, Inc., asserting that they had negligently caused the death of his wife,…