M. J. Carroll Contracting Co. v. Brown

This is an appeal from a final judgment for plaintiff entered in a negligence action. Plaintiff sued the defendant, appellant herein, for damages which resulted when his automobile ran into an unpaved depression left by defendant, a road contracting company, in a portion of newly constructed highway. The judgment was based on a jury verdict for plaintiff in an amount of $5,500. Defendant appeals.

This case is a companion case to M. J. Carroll Contracting Co. v. Pine, Fla.App., 103 So.2d 685, in which case we affirmed a jury verdict in favor of Betty Pine.

In this case, Jesse Odell Brown, the…