Messner v. Webb's City

62 So.2d 66 (1952)

MESSNER et al.

v.

WEBB'S CITY, Inc.

Supreme Court of Florida, Special Division A.

December 16, 1952.

Carey & Harrison, St. Petersburg, for appellant.

Macfarlane, Ferguson, Allison & Kelly and T. Paine Kelly, Jr., Tampa, for appellee.

ROBERTS, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment upon a directed verdict entered in favor of the defendant-appellee at the close of plaintiff-appellant's case in a suit to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been sustained through the negligence of the defendant.

The only evidence as to the circumstances surrounding the plaintiff's injury was…