Brown v. City of Vero Beach

REED, Chief Judge.

The issue presented on this appeal is whether or not the trial court erred in granting a motion for a directed verdict for the defendant in a negligence action wherein the defendant was charged with negligence in the maintenance of an uninsulated wire carrying high voltage electricity near certain commercial real property in or near the City of Vero Beach, Florida.

The plaintiff, appellant here, Lindsey Brown, filed a complaint against the City of Vero Beach on 6 August 1968 in which he alleged that on 16 May 1968, while he was helping his father erect a TV antenna on top of…