Housel v. Ryder Truck Lines, Inc.

CROSS, Chief Judge.

Appellants-plaintiffs, Ted Housel and Rachel S. Housel, his wife, appeal a final judgment entered in a non-jury trial in favor of the defendant, Ryder Truck Lines, Inc., a Tennessee corporation qualified to do business in the State of Florida, in an action asserting negligence in the delivery of a refrigerator-freezer. We reverse.

The plaintiffs, Ted Housel and Rachel Housel his wife, in October 1967 purchased a refrigerator-freezer combination from a plumbing company in Sebring, Florida. The appliance, which weighed 453 pounds, was to be shipped to the plaintiffs at their…