Opinion
No. 36513.
April 3, 1968. Rehearing Denied May 6, 1968.
Petition for review from the Florida Industrial Commission.
Howard N. Pelzner, Miami, for petitioners.
Williams Jabara, Miami, Patrick H. Mears, Tallahassee, and J. Franklin Garner, Lakeland, for respondents.
This is a review by petition for a writ of certiorari of an order of the Florida Industrial Commission entered May 19, 1967, which affirmed the order of the deputy commissioner. The deputy's order found that respondent had been injured in an accident arising out of and in the course of respondent's employment.
Our consideration of the petition, the record, and briefs, together with oral argument heard, leads to the conclusion that the petition for certiorari should be and is hereby denied.
Attorney's fee in the amount of $350 is awarded to claimant's attorney.
It is so ordered.
ROBERTS, THORNAL and ADAMS, JJ., and SPECTOR, District Court Judge, concur.
CALDWELL, C.J., dissents with opinion.
I dissent.
The "logic and reason" rule is once again observed in the breach. The claimant here donned his "dark suit and tie," and devoted some portion of the night to wine, food and the company of his girl friend in her apartment. He testified he returned to his room and bed in the building of which he was caretaker and, in the earlier than dawn of the next morning, dressed in the clothes worn the night before, repaired to the roof of the building where he sat on the wall two or three feet above the roof to feel some four or five feet below him for structural cracks supposedly left by an earlier storm.
United States Casualty Co. v. Maryland Casualty Co., 55 So.2d 741 (Fla. 1951).
If the logic and reason of the above seems obscure, his next action may be characterized as nothing short of ridiculous. He carefully removed his shoes, trousers and jacket, hung the garments by the stairwell, and again sat on the protective wall, from which he said he tried to reach the crevice four or five feet below him, and, in doing so, fell forty-five feet to the ground. When found thirty minutes later he smelled heavily of alcohol.
To say the claim is supported by evidence comporting with logic and reason taxes both imagination and credulity.