Atlantic Peninsular Holding Co. v. Oenbrink

—On December 2, 1935, plaintiff filed in the Circuit Court of Palm Beach County, Florida, an amended declaration claiming damages for the negligent death of Ralph Oenbrink, a boy twelve years of age, caused by a fall from the fourth floor of the Blue Heron Hotel, an unfinished structure situated about one hundred feet from the Atlantic Ocean. While the child was playing on the concrete floor near an open shaft,, the concrete floor collapsed due to latent defects, which caused him to fall and plunge to the bottom of the unguarded shaft to his death. It was alleged that the defect which caused…