Estate of Marimon ex rel. Falcon v. Florida Power & Light Co.

The Estate of Leosbel Marimon, plaintiff below, appeals a final summary judgment entered in favor of the two defendants, a landlord and an electric utility company, based on Leosbel Marimon’s wrongful death from electrocution. Because there are genuine issues of material fact, we reverse as to both defendants.

Marimon was a seventeen-year-old boy who was recruited by an elderly neighbor, Juan Martinez, to pick fruit from residential yards around their neighborhood. While Martinez would gather fruit from the ground, Marimon would climb the trees to forage from the higher branches. Sometime…