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- Title: Wilma W. Bassett v. Ethel C. Edwards
- Author : Supreme Court of Florida
- Release Date : January 06, 1947
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 59 KB
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October 11, 1944, Ethel C. Edwards was operating a 1937 Chevrolet automobile in a westerly direction on Park Avenue and brought her car to a stop near the intersection of Park Avenue and Satsuma Drive in Tallahassee, Florida. This intersection is not located within the city limits of Tallahassee. Bassett's Dairy through its servants and employees, at the same time and place, was operating a truck with a load of approximately 9,000 pounds in a southwesterly direction on Satsuma Drive. The automobile and truck collided at the aforesaid intersection, thereby resulting in certain injuries to Ethel C. Edwards and a demolition of her automobile. Ethel C. Edwards, joined by her husband, in a single count declaration alleged that the proximate cause of the injuries received and the destruction of her automobile was due to the carelessness and negligence of the driver in the operation of the Bassett's Dairy truck at and approaching this intersection. The case went to trial on the issues made by defendant's plea of not guilty directed to plaintiffs' declaration and on defendant's counterclaim, drafted under Chapter 20,426, Acts of 1941, Laws of Florida, in which defendant sought to recover of the plaintiffs the sum of $126.16 as damages to defendant's truck received in the collision with plaintiffs' automobile. The plaintiffs filed a plea of not guilty to defendant's counterclaim. Thus on these issues made by the pleadings, the jury, after hearing all the evidence, returned a verdict for the plaintiffs