Lightfoot v. Head
Citations
- 64 Fla. 364
Syllabus
<p>1. Actual adverse possession for less than one year is no bar to a claim under a tax title.</p> <p>2. Actual possession under a deed conveying one acre of a forty is not constructive possession of the whole forty, though the deed purports to make the grantee an agent to hold the forty adversely.</p> <p>3. A grantee in possession under a deed for one acre of a forty, does not acquire possession of the rest of the forty by merely using some of the dead wood thereon and putting up signs, as against one who fences the entire forty and cultivates a part of it.</p>
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- vacating summary judgment for defendant where jury could infer icy conditions that caused carwash customer to slip and fall next morning
- reversing trial court’s grant of summary judgment on the grounds that whether a car wash owner exercised reasonable care to its invitees was a question of fact for the jury
- “Whether an owner has exercised the required degree of care to its invitees is a question of fact for the jury.” (citation omitted)
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Judges: Account, Cockrell, Hocker, Illness, Shackleford, Taylor, Whitfield
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