Sheckler v. City of Mt. Dora

DAUKSCH, Chief Judge.

The issue in this case is whether the trial judge properly excluded evidence relating to the responsibility on the part of the city for appellant’s injuries which occurred when the lid of a trash dumpster fell upon him. It was the city’s position that it was the manufacturer’s fault the lid struck the appellant, or that it was appellant’s fault himself. Appellant attempted to elicit testimony from an expert witness relating to “how this instability and unsafe condition could be corrected on this particular dumpster?” The trial judge did not permit this question to be…