Case Name: Rina GARCIA and Fernando Garcia, her husband, Appellants, v. Geronimo COLLAZO, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 2000-04-12
Citations: 758 So. 2d 721
Docket Number: No. 3D99-565
Parties: Rina GARCIA and Fernando Garcia, her husband, Appellants, v. Geronimo COLLAZO, Appellee.
Judges: Before JORGENSON, FLETCHER and SHEVIN, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 758
Pages: 721–721

Head Matter:
Rina GARCIA and Fernando Garcia, her husband, Appellants, v. Geronimo COLLAZO, Appellee.
No. 3D99-565.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
April 12, 2000.
Lidsky, Vaecaro & Montes and Juan C. Montes, Hialeah, for appellants.
Angones, Hunter, McClure, Lynch & Williams, and Christopher J. Lynch, Miami, for appellee.
Before JORGENSON, FLETCHER and SHEVIN, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
We reverse the order granting the defendant landlord final summary judgment. "The open and obvious nature of the hazard does not provide an avenue of relief. ." Jauma v. City of Hialeah, 758 So.2d 696, 698 (Fla. 3d DCA 2000). "[Although the open and obvious nature of a hazard may discharge a landowner's duty to warn, it does not discharge the duty to maintain the property in a reasonably safe condition." Kersul v. Boca Raton Community Hosp., Inc., 711 So.2d 234, 234 (Fla. 4th DCA 1998); see Lotto v. Point East Two Condominium Corp., 702 So.2d 1361 (Fla. 3d DCA 1997).
Reversed and remanded.