Opinion
No. 89-02501.
June 15, 1990.
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Pinellas County; John T. Ware, Judge.
Joel D. Eaton of Podhurst, Orseck, Josefsberg, Eaton, Meadow, Olin Perwin, P.A., Miami, and Wagner, Cunningham, Vaughan McLaughlin, P.A., Tampa, for appellant.
Larry I. Gramovot of Stuart, Gramovot Strickland, P.A., Tampa, for appellee.
Affirmed. See Raynor v. De La Nuez, 558 So.2d 141 (Fla.3d DCA 1990); Kraemer v. General Motors Acceptance Corp., 556 So.2d 431 (Fla.2d DCA 1990).
As did the Third District Court of Appeal in Raynor, we certify this case to the Florida Supreme Court as of great public importance. It involves whether under circumstances like those recited in Kraemer a long-term lessor of an automobile may be held liable under the dangerous instrumentality doctrine to a plaintiff injured by the operation of the automobile.
SCHEB, A.C.J., and RYDER, J., concur.