Court Opinion

ID: 4378617
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2019-03-20 14:02:40.990654+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:31:53.515425
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FIRST DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL
                STATE OF FLORIDA
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                          No. 1D18-1654
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NANCY WANNALL and GARY
WANNALL,

    Appellants,

    v.

GADSDEN COUNTY EMERGENCY
MEDICAL SERVICES, and TOWN
OF HAVANA,

    Appellees.
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On appeal from the Circuit Court for Gadsden County.
Francis Allman, Judge.

                         March 20, 2019

PER CURIAM.

      Appellants seek review of an order granting summary
judgment in favor of Appellees. We find any foreseeable zone of
risk did not extend to Appellants. Accordingly, Appellees did not
owe a duty of care to Appellants, and we affirm the trial court’s
order. See Parker v. Murphy, 510 So. 2d 990 (Fla. 1st DCA 1987)
(affirming summary judgment in favor of the sheriff after a
prisoner twice escaped and attacked appellant and her husband
holding there was no special relationship between the sheriff and
appellant, and thus, no duty of care).
    AFFIRMED.

MAKAR, WINOKUR, and M.K. THOMAS, JJ., concur.

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    Not final until disposition of any timely and
    authorized motion under Fla. R. App. P. 9.330 or
    9.331.
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Marie A. Mattox and James Garrity of Marie A. Mattox, P.A.,
Tallahassee, for Appellants.

William B. Armistead and Gwendolyn P. Adkins of Coppins
Monroe, P.A., Tallahassee; and Jeff F. Dodson of McConnaughhay,
Coonrod, Pope, Weaver & Stern, P.A., Tallahassee, for Appelles.

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