Case ID: so2d_373/html/0693-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PUBLIX SUPER MARKETS, INC., Appellant, v. Ann C. DEMARCO, etc., et al., Appellees.
    No. 78-65.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
    June 13, 1979.
    Nancy Little Hoffman, and K. P. Jones, Ft. Lauderdale, for appellant.
    Robert Orseck and Joel D. Eaton of Pod-hurst, Orseck & Parks, P. A., Miami, and J. Jay Simons of Simons & Schlesinger, Fort Lauderdale, for appellees.
   PER CURIAM.

Affirmed.

DOWNEY, C. J., and CROSS, J., concur.

BERANEK, J., dissents with opinion.

BERANEK, Judge,

dissenting.

I respectfully dissent. In this case the trial court allowed plaintiff to present the testimony of an expert witness over the defendant’s objection. This witness had not formed an opinion until the Friday before the Monday of the trial. Plaintiff had not answered defendant’s interrogatories propounded early in the case as to the opinions of experts which plaintiff intended to call. Under the circumstances I believe the Court should not have allowed the expert to testify and would, therefore, reverse for a new trial.