Case Name: Carl L. LAKS and Helga Laks, his wife, Appellants, v. X-TRA SUPER FOOD CENTERS, INC., Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1995-04-12
Citations: 654 So. 2d 578
Docket Number: No. 93-1258
Parties: Carl L. LAKS and Helga Laks, his wife, Appellants, v. X-TRA SUPER FOOD CENTERS, INC., Appellee.
Judges: Before NESBITT, COPE and LEVY, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 654
Pages: 578–579

Head Matter:
Carl L. LAKS and Helga Laks, his wife, Appellants, v. X-TRA SUPER FOOD CENTERS, INC., Appellee.
No. 93-1258.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
April 12, 1995.
Rehearing Denied May 31, 1995.
Simon & Nelson and Steven Nelson, Ma-land & Ross and Lauri Waldman Ross, Miami, for appellants.
Gaebe, Murphy, Mullen & Antonelli and David Kleinberg, Coral Gables, for appellee.
Before NESBITT, COPE and LEVY, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Carl L. Laks and Helga Laks appeal an adverse summary judgment in a premises liability case. We affirm.
After careful review of the record herein, we conclude that the injury in this case was caused by a "freakish and improbable chain of events [which was] . unquestionably unforeseeable." McCain v. Florida Power Corp., 593 So.2d 500, 503 (Fla.1992). We do not think that the landowner could have reasonably anticipated the confluence of events which allowed the electric eye and motion detector at the store's entrance to be defeated and the accident to occur. "The law does not impose liability for freak injuries that were utterly unpredictable in light of common human experience." Id. at 503.
Plaintiff contends alternatively that there may have been a malfunction in the motorized sliding glass door involved in this case. The testimony by the witness familiar with the door's control mechanisms indicates that in the event of an electrical malfunction the door would become stationary. We find our selves in agreement with the trial court in the entry of summary judgment.
Affirmed.
NESBITT and COPE, JJ., concur.