Holland Builders, Inc. v. Leck

HERSEY, Judge.

This was an action against the owner of land for monetary damages resulting from physical injuries incurred by a minor who, while riding his motorcycle along a path on vacant property, collided with a barbed wire fence.

The land in question was basically raw acreage. It was owned at one time by Florida Palm Aire. This corporation entered into an arrangement with one Raymond Scholler requiring Scholler to maintain the property in exchange for the right to graze his cattle on it. An existing fence had been torn down and two or three weeks prior to the accident Scholler constructed…