Pearson v. Royal Caribbean Cruises

Full title: WILLIAM PEARSON Appellant, vs. ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES, LTD., Appellee

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District

Date published: Jan 12, 2000

751 So. 2d 125 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2000)

Opinion

No. 3D98-2773.

Opinion filed January 12, 2000.

An appeal from the Circuit Court of Dade County, Lawrence A. Schwartz, Judge, L.T. No. 95-18079.

Stuart H. Share and Mark T. Packo, for appellant.

Hicks Anderson and Mark Hicks and Dinah S. Stein; Canning Murray, for appellee.

Before JORGENSON, COPE, and FLETCHER, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. See Clement v. Rousselle Corp., 372 So.2d 1156, 1158 (Fla. 1st DCA 1979) ("A defendant who has answered with a general denial, is entitled to prove, and to argue to the jury, that the accident was due solely to the negligence of a person not party to the suit."), cert. denied, 383 So.2d 1191 (Fla. 1980).