Case Name: Nellie QUINONES, as Administratrix and personal representative of the Estate of Pedro Luis Quinones, Appellant, v. METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1979-01-23
Citations: 366 So. 2d 535
Docket Number: No. 78-516
Parties: Nellie QUINONES, as Administratrix and personal representative of the Estate of Pedro Luis Quinones, Appellant, v. METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY, Appellee.
Judges: Before KEHOE and SCHWARTZ, JJ., and CHARLES CARROLL (Ret.), Associate Judge.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 366
Pages: 535–535

Head Matter:
Nellie QUINONES, as Administratrix and personal representative of the Estate of Pedro Luis Quinones, Appellant, v. METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY, Appellee.
No. 78-516.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Jan. 23, 1979.
Joe N. Unger, Rodriguez & Meroni, Miami, for appellant.
Fowler, White, Burnett, Hurley, Banick & Knight and Fred R. Ober, Miami, for appellee.
Before KEHOE and SCHWARTZ, JJ., and CHARLES CARROLL (Ret.), Associate Judge.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
In this wrongful death action filed against Metropolitan Dade County, the plaintiff appeals from a summary judgment entered for the defendant.
On August 5, 1974, the day following arrest of the plaintiff's decedent on the charge of aggravated assault, at a bond hearing the court denied bond upon viewing the accused to be a danger to the public and to himself, and ordered that the accused be given a psychiatric evaluation. Five days later, on August 10,1974, before any action was taken on the order for his examination, the accused committed suicide, by hanging himself, while incarcerated in the Dade County Jail in a cell which contained 19 other men. The complaint in the subsequent wrongful death action charged the defendant with negligence by failing to properly safeguard the accused, after being informed of his unstable mental condition, proximately resulting in the death of the decedent.
On consideration of the record, briefs and arguments, we hold the pleadings and evidence before the court presented genuine issues of material fact bearing on the alleged negligence of the defendant which properly could not be disposed of by summary judgment. Since the cause is to be remanded for trial, we refrain from making a statement of the facts disclosed.
The summary judgment for the defendant is reversed, and the Cause is remanded for further proceedings.