Case Name: Thomas Marvin BLACKBURN, Sr., Appellant, v. REDWING CARRIERS, INC., a foreign corporation doing business in the State of Florida, and Standard Oil Company, a foreign corporation doing business in the State of Florida, Appellees
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1973-02-16
Citations: 273 So. 2d 141
Docket Number: No. 72-183
Parties: Thomas Marvin BLACKBURN, Sr., Appellant, v. REDWING CARRIERS, INC., a foreign corporation doing business in the State of Florida, and Standard Oil Company, a foreign corporation doing business in the State of Florida, Appellees.
Judges: MANN, C. J., HOBSON, J., and PIERCE, J. (Ret.), concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 273
Pages: 141–142

Head Matter:
Thomas Marvin BLACKBURN, Sr., Appellant, v. REDWING CARRIERS, INC., a foreign corporation doing business in the State of Florida, and Standard Oil Company, a foreign corporation doing business in the State of Florida, Appellees.
No. 72-183.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
Feb. 16, 1973.
Joseph S. Rodriguez, St. Petersburg, for appellant.
Glenn M. Woodworth, of Ulmer & Woodworth, St. Petersburg, for appellee, Standard Oil Co.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Blackburn was injured at a Standard Oil Company bulk plant when a heavy hose and nozzle was knocked loose by a vehicle owned by Redwing' Carriers, Inc. He alleged that Standard Oil and Redwing were concurrently negligent. Standard Oil won a summary judgment in the trial court, from which this appeal is taken, having shown that the Redwing vehicle was of abnormal height and that its driver had entered an area designed solely for use by small de livery trucks. Standard Oil's argument "that any reasonably prudent truck driver would have been aware that he could not safely drive his truck into that area without causing damage to property or persons" overlooks the fact that this may be perfectly true and yet the entry of such a vehicle into the area and injury such as occurred here might have been foreseeable. The record discloses a sufficient basis for Blackburn's contention that Standard Oil might have been negligent in failing to foresee and guard against the accident which occurred. Summary judgment at this stage was therefore improper.
Reversed and remanded.
MANN, C. J., HOBSON, J., and PIERCE, J. (Ret.), concur.