Beaver v. Howerton

PIERCE, Judge.

In this case appellant Helen Beaver, a widow, plaintiff below, appeals a final summary judgment entered by the Highlands County Circuit Court in favor of appellee Claude Franklin Howerton, as defendant below.

By amended complaint, plaintiff sought damages for the death of her husband as the result of a collision on State Road #700 near Sebring between the truck he was driving and a black cow which defendant Howerton allegedly permitted to escape from his ranch. In Count I it was alleged that Howerton failed to properly maintain his fences, failed to secure and enclose his gates…