Garcia v. Collazo

Full title: RINA GARCIA and FERNANDO GARCIA, her husband, Appellants, vs. GERONIMO…

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District

Date published: Apr 12, 2000

758 So. 2d 721 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2000)

Opinion

No. 3D99-565.

Opinion filed April 12, 2000.

An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Dade County, Eleanor Schockett, Judge, L.T. No. 97-10238.

Lidsky, Vaccaro Montes and Juan C. Montes, for appellants.

Angones, Hunter, McClure, Lynch Williams, and Christopher J. Lynch, for appellee.

Before JORGENSON, FLETCHER and SHEVIN, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

We reverse the order granting the defendant landlord final summary judgment. "The open and obvious nature of the hazard does not provide an avenue of relief. . . ." Jauma v. City of Hialeah, 25 Fla. L. Weekly D196, D196 (Fla. 3d DCA Jan. 19, 2000). "[A]lthough the open and obvious nature of a hazard may discharge a landowner's duty to warn, it does not discharge the duty to maintain the property in a reasonably safe condition."Kersul v. Boca Raton Community Hosp., Inc., 711 So.2d 234, 234 (Fla. 4th DCA 1998); see Lotto v. Point East Two Condominium Corp., 702 So.2d 1361 (Fla. 3d DCA 1997).

Reversed and remanded.