Case Name: Samuel J. TRAMMEL, Appellant, v. RELIANCE INSURANCE COMPANY and Larry Frady Crane Service, Appellees
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1976-03-26
Citations: 328 So. 2d 868
Docket Number: No. 75-1076
Parties: Samuel J. TRAMMEL, Appellant, v. RELIANCE INSURANCE COMPANY and Larry Frady Crane Service, Appellees.
Judges: OWEN and MAGER, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 328
Pages: 868–869

Head Matter:
Samuel J. TRAMMEL, Appellant, v. RELIANCE INSURANCE COMPANY and Larry Frady Crane Service, Appellees.
No. 75-1076.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
March 26, 1976.
Rehearing Denied April 14, 1976.
Thomas A. Hoadley of Howell, Kirby Montgomery, D’Aiuto & Dean, and Edward W. Starr, West Palm Beach, for appellant.
Marjorie D. Gadarian of Jones, Paine & Foster, West Palm Beach, for appellees.

Opinion:
CROSS, Judge.
Appellant, Samuel J. Trammel, seeks review of a final judgment entered in favor of appellees, Larry Frady Crane Service and Reliance Insurance Company, in an action seeking damages for personal injuries sustained by the appellant as a result of alleged negligence in the operation of a crane.
Upon review of the record on appeal and after consideration of the briefs submitted by counsel for the respective parties, we determine that the trial court erroneously instructed the jury that assumption of risk was a complete bar to recovery in a negligence action. The assumption of risk doctrine has been completely abrogated by the adoption of the comparative negligence principle. Rea v. Leadership Housing, Inc., 312 So.2d 818 (Fla.App.1975). Accordingly, the judgment entered in favor of appel-lees, Larry Frady Crane Service and Reliance Insurance Company, is reversed and the cause is remanded for a new trial.'
Reversed and remanded.
OWEN and MAGER, JJ., concur.