City of St. Petersburg v. Naden

McNULTY, Judge.

In this negligence action the trial court granted summary 'judgment in favor of plaintiff-appellee on the issue of liability. This interlocutory appeal followed and we reverse.

Metz, a city bus driver, was wearing new work shoes with leather soles. He stopped his bus to pick up a passenger. Thereafter, he applied the foot throttle slightly to get the bus rolling and close a gap between his bus and the plaintiff-ap-pellee’s vehicle. After proceeding approximately ten feet and reaching a speed of some 4 m. p. h., he stepped on the brake pedal as he approached appellee’s vehicle.…