State Road Department v. Butingaro

HENDRY, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered after a jury verdict in favor of the ap-pellees who were the plaintiffs below. Plaintiff, Margie Butingaro, filed her complaint along with the derivative claim of her husband, Dominic Butingaro, for damages allegedly sustained by reason of the negligence in the operation of a motor vehicle by the defendant, John Eugene Polk. The defendant, State Road Department, was the owner of the automobile in which the defendant Polk, a Florida Highway Patrolman, was driving at the time of the accident in question.

The accident occurred on January 27,…