Case Name: Steven Francisco ADOPTIE, a minor, By and Through his mother and next friend, Marlene ADOPTIE, and Marlene Adoptie, individually, Appellants, v. SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY, and Florida Power and Light Company, Appellees
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1983-02-08
Citations: 426 So. 2d 1162
Docket Number: Nos. 82-829, 82-830
Parties: Steven Francisco ADOPTIE, a minor, By and Through his mother and next friend, Marlene ADOPTIE, and Marlene Adoptie, individually, Appellants, v. SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY, and Florida Power and Light Company, Appellees.
Judges: Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and NESBITT and FERGUSON, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 426
Pages: 1162–1163

Head Matter:
Steven Francisco ADOPTIE, a minor, By and Through his mother and next friend, Marlene ADOPTIE, and Marlene Adoptie, individually, Appellants, v. SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY, and Florida Power and Light Company, Appellees.
Nos. 82-829, 82-830.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Feb. 8, 1983.
Horton, Perse & Ginsberg and Edward Perse, Lawrence Rodgers, Miami, for appellants.
Shutts & Bowen and Phillip J. Sheehe and Andrew L. Gordon; Steel, Hector & Davis and Norman A. Coll and Andrew E. Grigsby, Miami, for appellees.
Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and NESBITT and FERGUSON, JJ.

Opinion:
SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.
Adoptie was injured in an intersection accident which was allegedly caused by the inoperability of the traffic light. He sued Florida Power & Light and Southern Bell asserting that the defect resulted from the fact that, some time before, the work crews of either or both negligently cut the power line which supplied electricity to the signal. We affirm the dismissal of the complaint as against the appellees on the ground that their alleged conduct was, as a matter of law, not a legal cause of the plaintiffs damages. Pope v. Pinkerton-Hays Lumber Co., 120 So.2d 227 (Fla. 1st DCA 1960), cert. denied, 127 So.2d 441 (Fla.1961); Cone v. Inter County Tel. & Tel. Co., 40 So.2d 148 (Fla.1949).
Affirmed.