Wallace v. Taxicabs of Tampa, Inc.

SHANNON, Judge.

The appellant, plaintiff below, brings this appeal after a jury verdict was decided adversely to him. The case arose out of an intersection collision in the City of Tampa. The plaintiff was driving east on Lafayette Street, a through street which has two lanes of moving traffic in each direction as well as a parking lane on each side of the street. He was proceeding in the center lane and was approaching a stop light which had traffic in the right hand lane backed up past Magnolia, an intersecting stop street. The cars which had stopped in that lane, however, had left a gap…