Case ID: so2d_251/html/0141-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY, a foreign corporation authorized to do business in the State of Florida, Appellant, v. Nadine E. BRUCE and Clarence N. Bruce, husband and wife, Appellees. OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY, a foreign corporation authorized to do business in the State of Florida, Appellant, v. Mary McLAY, Appellee.
    Nos. 71-128, 71-129.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
    Aug. 9, 1971.
    Gary L. Stump, of Whittaker, Pyle & Stump, Orlando, for appellant.
    Thomas M. Woodruff, of Whitaker & Koepke & Associates, Orlando, for appel-lees.
   PER CURIAM.

Upon examining the record-on-appeal and the arguments presented to us, we hold the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur was properly before the jury. Yarbrough v. Ball U-Drive System, Inc., Fla.1950, 48 So.2d 82; Holman v. Ford Motor Company, Fla.App.1970, 239 So.2d 40; Enslein v. Hudson & Manhattan Railroad Company, 1957, 8 Misc.2d 87, 165 N.Y.S.2d 630 and Domany v. Otis Elevator Company, 6th C.A. 1966, 369 F.2d 604, cert. den. at 387 U.S. 942, 87 S.Ct. 2073, 18 L.Ed.2d 1327.

Affirmed.

WALDEN, CROSS and OWEN, JJ., concur.