260 So. 2d 546 | Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | 1972
This appeal is by the plaintiff below from a summary judgment for the defendant. The action was for damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff upon coming in contact with an electrical wire or line maintained by the defendant-appel-lee. Following extensive discovery the defendant moved for and was granted a summary judgment. Having considered the record and briefs we hold it was error to grant the summary judgment. Upon examination of the pleadings and the evidence that was before the trial court on the motion for summary judgment we are impelled to conclude there were triable issues relating to negligence and contributory negligence which properly could not be resolved on summary judgment. See Holl v. Talcott, Fla.1966, 191 So.2d 40. We repeat, as applicable to this case, the pronouncement of the Supreme Court in an opinion authored by Justice Drew in Williams v. City of Lake City, Fla.1953, 62 So.2d 732, viz:
“The right to a jury trial is a very sacred part of our system of jurisprudence and,