Dollar Rent A Car System, Inc. v. Lean

Full title: DOLLAR RENT A CAR SYSTEM, INC., a foreign corporation…

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District

Date published: Nov 3, 1999

744 So. 2d 558 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1999)

Opinion

No. 98-1848.

Opinion filed November 3, 1999.

An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Monroe County, Sandra Taylor, Judge; L.T. No. 97-910.

Richard A. Sherman, and Rosemary B. Wilder (Fort Lauderdale); Ligman, Martin Evans, and Joseph W. Ligman, for Appellant, Dollar Rent A Car System.

Michelle I. Cates (Key West), for Appellee Friendly Cars of Key West, Inc.; John M. Camillo, and Candace D. Korthals (Fort Lauderdale); Nancy Little Hoffmann (Fort Lauderdale), for Appellees, Jim Walsh and G2 Enterprises, Inc.

Before JORGENSON, GERSTEN, and GREEN, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

Because Sean Lea successfully stated a cause of action against defendants Jim Walsh, Friendly Cabs of Key West, Inc., and G2 Enterprises, Inc., see McCain v. Florida Power Corp., 593 So.2d 500 (Fla. 1992), the dismissals entered below are reversed. The defendants may argue that they owed no duty to Mr. Lea as a matter of law at a later pretrial stage of the case and, of course, at the appropriate stages of trial.

Reversed and remanded.