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Jeffrey GERUM, Appellant, v. Jeannie BRUNO and the Follies International, Appellees.
    No. 85-147.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
    Dec. 18, 1985.
    
      Gary Gerrard of Haddad, Josephs & Jack, Coral Gables, for appellant.
    Eliot R. Weitzman, Miami, for appellee, The Follies Intern.
   PER CURIAM.

REVERSED. A complaint sets out a cause of action if it contains a short, plain statement of the facts which shows that the pleader is entitled to relief. Bolton v. Smythe, 432 So.2d 129 (Fla.5th DCA 1983). The complaint in this matter is sufficient to state a cause of action in negligence.

REVERSED AND REMANDED.

LETTS, J., and BOARDMAN, EDWARD F., Associate Judge (Retired), concur.

ANSTEAD, J., specially concurs with opinion.

ANSTEAD, Judge,

specially concurring:

I concur in the majority opinion giving the appellant the benefit of the doubt in stating a cause of action against the appel-lee, Follies International, for injuries suffered by appellant in an automobile accident with an allegedly intoxicated employee of appellee on her way home from work. I do so by reading the allegations of the complaint liberally to allege, in essence, that the employee was a “B-girl” whose duties required her to solicit customers to buy her alcoholic drinks, and that the ap-pellee-employer knew or should have known as a consequence of prescribing such duties that she was in an intoxicated condition when she left the premises and went out on the public roads in her automobile. Cf. Romeo v. Van Otterloo, 117 Mich.App. 333, 323 N.W.2d 693 (1982).