William H. Smith v. Fiat-Roosevelt Motors, Inc., a New Jersey Corporation

GEE, Circuit Judge:

Our recent opinion in West v. Caterpillar Tractor Co., Inc. 1 notes that the opinion of the Florida Supreme Court in that case, 2 an opinion which obliged us directly by settling the major questions of Florida law and policy we had there certified, also “contains other reasoning and subsidiary indications which will be of interest to Florida practitioners . . . .” West v. Caterpillar Tractor Co., Inc., 547 F.2d 885, 887 (5th Cir. 1977). It falls out today that these are of interest to us as well, for they permit us to dispose of this appeal without again imposing on the…