Legal Opinion
Metropolitan Dade County v. Cox
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided August 7, 1984No. 83-2687PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
453 So.2d 1171 (1984)
METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY, Appellant,
v.
Minnie COX, Appellee.
No. 83-2687.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
August 7, 1984.
Robert A. Ginsburg, County Atty., and Thomas W. Logue, Asst. County Atty., for appellant.
Gary E. Garbis, Miami, for appellee.
Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and NESBITT and DANIEL S. PEARSON, JJ.
SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.
Dade County appeals from a $50,000 judgment reduced from a $60,000 jury verdict under Sec. 768.28(5), Fla. Stat. (1981). The recovery was based upon findings that the plaintiff, who had slipped and fallen in an accumulation of water…
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