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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Gary Waymon PENNINGTON and Jennifer J. Pennington, Appellants, v. PALM BEACH TRANSPORTATION, INC., a Florida corporation, d/b/a Yellow Cab Company, Phil Peberdy and Vincent Lalomia, Appellees.
    No. 90-2184.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
    April 29, 1992.
    Philip M. Burlington of Edna L. Caruso, P.A., and Michael Nugent, West Palm Beach, for appellants.
    Steven R. Berger of Wolpe, Leibowitz, Berger & Brotman, Miami, and Law Offices of James W. Kehoe, West Palm Beach, for appellee-Palm Beach Transp., Inc.
   PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED.

HERSEY and GARRETT, JJ., concur.

ANSTEAD, J., concurs specially with opinion.

ANSTEAD, Judge,

concurring specially.

I concur in the majority’s affirmance of the trial court’s order dismissing appellants’ complaint. Gary Pennington, a taxi driver, sought to hold the taxi company liable for injuries sustained when he was assaulted by a passenger. He claimed the taxi company was liable for refusing to provide him with a protective safety shield between the front and rear compartments of the vehicle, and for refusing to cooperate with him in installing such a shield in the company’s taxi. In my view the appellant failed to demonstrate a legal duty, either contractually or under the common law, on the part of the company. Cf. Hosein v. Checker Taxi Co. Inc., 95 Ill.App.3d 150, 50 Ill.Dec. 460, 419 N.E.2d 568 (1981); Irby v. St. Louis County Cab Co., 560 S.W.2d 392 (Mo.Ct.App.1977).