Opinion
Case No. 96-2419
Opinion filed June 25, 1997.
An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Dade County, Jon I. Gordon, Judge.
Samek Besser and Lawrence Besser, for appellant.
Walton, Lantaff, Schroeder Carson and Geoffrey B. Marks and Alicia M. Santana, for appellee.
Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and COPE and LEVY, JJ.
The defense judgment entered pursuant to a directed verdict below is reversed for a new trial because, contrary to the trial court's determination, evidence that a ladder which was defective both before and afterwards collapsed while being used by the plaintiff in a normal manner was more than sufficient to raise a reasonable inference that — and thus a jury question whether — the defect caused the accident. See Bianchi v. Garber, 528 So.2d 969 (Fla. 4th DCA 1988); Goode v. Walt Disney World Co., 425 So.2d 1151 (Fla. 5th DCA 1982), pet. for review denied, 436 So.2d 101 (Fla. 1983); Roach v. Raubar, 362 So.2d 84 (Fla. 3d DCA 1978); Fletcher v. Petman Enters., Inc., 324 So.2d 135 (Fla. 3d DCA 1975).
Reversed.