Case Name: Evelyn EVANS and Robert K. Evans, Appellants, v. HARTFORD ACCIDENT & INDEMNITY CO. and Palm Coast Plaza, Inc., Appellees
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1974-12-06
Citations: 303 So. 2d 682
Docket Number: No. 74-10
Parties: Evelyn EVANS and Robert K. Evans, Appellants, v. HARTFORD ACCIDENT & INDEMNITY CO. and Palm Coast Plaza, Inc., Appellees.
Judges: OWEN, C. J., and WALDEN and MA-GER, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 303
Pages: 682–683

Head Matter:
Evelyn EVANS and Robert K. Evans, Appellants, v. HARTFORD ACCIDENT & INDEMNITY CO. and Palm Coast Plaza, Inc., Appellees.
No. 74-10.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
Dec. 6, 1974.
Larry Klein, Cone Wagner, Nugent, Johnson & McKeown, P. A., West Palm Beach, for appellants.
Richard A. Henry and Frank G. Cibula, Jr., Walton, Lantaff, Schroeder, Carson & Wahl, West Palm Beach, for appellees.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Upon examination of the record on appeal and upon consideration of the briefs and oral argument we are of the opinion that a genuine triable issue of material fact exists with respect to the nature of the duty owed by the defendant to the plaintiff. Luckey v. City of Orlando, Fla. App.1972, 264 So.2d 99; cf. Aaron v. Logro Corp., Fla.App.1969, 226 So.2d 8. A valid distinction can be drawn between a bumper strip in a parking lot which an invitee can be reasonably expected to anticipate as in Aaron, supra, and the placing of bumper strips at the curb area immediately outside defendant's store (to prevent curb side parking) which an invitee might not be reasonably expected to encounter. Under the facts in the instant case a jury question was presented. 23 Fla.Jur., Negligence, sec. 129.
Accordingly, the summary final judgment is reversed and the case remanded for further proceedings consistent herewith.
Reversed and remanded.
OWEN, C. J., and WALDEN and MA-GER, JJ., concur.