Case ID: so2d_695/html/0915-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Irene MORALES, Appellant, v. PARAMO ENTERPRISES, INC., Appellee.
    No. 96-2419.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    June 25, 1997.
    
      Samek & Besser and Lawrence Besser, Miami, for appellant.
    Walton, Lantaff, Schroeder & Carson and Geoffrey B. Marks and Alicia M. Santana, Miami, for appellee.
    Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and COPE and LEVY, JJ.
   SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

The defense judgment entered pursuant to a directed verdict below is reversed for a new trial because, contrary to the trial court’s determination, evidence that a ladder which was defective both before and after-wards collapsed while being used by the plaintiff in a normal manner was more than sufficient to raise a reasonable inference that — and thus a jury question whether — the defect caused the accident. See Bianchi v. Garber, 528 So.2d 969 (Fla. 4th DCA 1988); Goode v. Walt Disney World Co., 425 So.2d 1151 (Fla. 5th DCA 1982), pet. for review denied, 436 So.2d 101 (Fla.1983); Roach v. Raubar, 362 So.2d 84 (Fla. 3d DCA 1978); Fletcher v. Petman Enters., Inc., 324 So.2d 135 (Fla. 3d DCA 1975).

Reversed.