Wishart v. Laidlaw Tree Service, Inc.

573 So.2d 183 (1991)

Robert WISHART, II, Appellant,

v.

LAIDLAW TREE SERVICE, INC., a Foreign Corporation, Appellee.

No. 90-01210.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

January 18, 1991.

Mark A. Neumaier, Tampa, for appellant.

Raymond T. Elligett, Jr., and Shirley T. Faircloth of Shackleford, Farrior, Stallings & Evans, Tampa, and Timon V. Sullivan of Gunn, Ogden & Sullivan, Tampa, for appellee.

The appellant (the employee) was injured while on his unpaid one-half hour lunch break when the brakes failed on a flat-bed truck owned by the appellee (the employer), causing the truck to roll…