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379 So. 2d 198

Docket No. 79-150/T2-9.

Wojtan v. Hernando County

Joseph F. WOJTAN, Appellant, v. HERNANDO COUNTY, etc., Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida

Decided January 30, 1980.

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 1980-01-30

Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 2004

6 state decisions

Relies on 371 So. 2d 1010 - Commercial Carrier Corp. v. Indian River Cty.

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Decided 1980-01-30

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¶1*199 H. Shelton Philips, of Kaleel & Kaleel, P.A., St. Petersburg, for appellant.

¶2Samuel R. Neel, III, of McClain & Walkley, Tampa, for appellee.

¶3ORFINGER, Judge.

¶4This is an action for damages wherein Appellant alleged that on June 2, 1976, the Appellee county carelessly and negligently maintained a certain county road and its shoulders which it had a duty to maintain in good, safe, condition; that because of Appellee's negligence the Appellant, while operating a motor vehicle along said roadway, was injured.

¶5The trial court granted a motion for judgment on the pleadings on the ground that Appellant had neither alleged nor demonstrated a duty owed to him that was different from the duty owed to the citizens of the county in general. Final judgment on the pleadings was entered, and from this judgment Appellant appeals.

¶6Commercial Carrier Corporation v. Indian River County,371 So.2d 1010 (Fla. 1979), was not available to the trial judge at the time he ruled in this case and that decision makes it clear that the maintenance of a roadway and its shoulders is "operational level activity" for which sovereign immunity for tort liability has been waived under § 768.28, F.S.

¶7The final judgment is reversed and the cause is remanded to the trial court for further proceedings in accordance herewith.

¶8REVERSED and REMANDED.

¶9DAUKSCH, C.J., and UPCHURCH, J., concur.

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