Legal Opinion

Peninsular Telephone Co. v. Marks, Et Vir

Supreme Court of Florida

Decided November 1, 1940PublishedCited by 21 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtChapman, J.

This case is here for review on writ of error to a final judgment for the plaintiff below, defendant in error here, entered by the Circuit Court of Polk County, Florida. Plaintiff’s cause of action was bottomed on the alleged negligence of the defendant below in erecting and maintaining a certain telephone pole at a point so near a frequently traveled paved street, then used as a part of a highway, in the City of Haines City that the defendant should have reasonably anticipated that the pole so erected and maintained would render the street at said point dangerous and unsafe for the traveling…

2Cases cited15 opinions

  1. Seaboard Air Line Railway Co. v. WatsonSupreme Court of Florida · 1927
  2. Benedict Pineapple Co. v. Atlantic Coast Line RailroadSupreme Court of Florida · 1908
  3. Wyatt v. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co.Supreme Court of Virginia · 1932
  4. Florida East Coast Railway Co. v. HayesSupreme Court of Florida · 1914
  5. Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. AllenSupreme Court of Florida · 1914

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3Cited by21 opinions

  1. Scheel v. TremblaySuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1973
  2. Coates v. Southern Maryland Electric Cooperative, Inc.Court of Appeals of Maryland · 1999
  3. Padgett v. West Florida Elec. Co-Op., Inc.District Court of Appeal of Florida · 1982
  4. Johnson v. HatoumDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1970
  5. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. State Ex Rel. ErvinSupreme Court of Florida · 1954

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