MAY L. ROTOLANTE, APPELLANT,
v.
DONALD DASILVA, APPELLEE

Fla. 3d DCA | 1984-12-18
No. 83-1854
Before BARKDULL, HUBBART and DANIEL S. PEARSON, JJ.
460 So. 2d 560 Florida District Court of Appeal, Third District (1984) Positive Treatment
Cited by 4 cases

Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

PER CURIAM.

The appellant is the owner of real property upon which her lessee operates a boarding stable for horses, and from which a horse which was neither owned nor controlled by the appellant wandered onto a public road causing damage to the appellee. The judgment against the appellant is reversed with directions to enter judgment in her favor upon a holding that the owner of land, who neither owns nor has custody or control of any livestock on the property, has no duty to erect or maintain a fence upon the land. Davidson v. Howard, 438 So. 2d 899 (Fla. 4th DCA 1983), rev. denied, 450 So. 2d 486 (Fla.1984).

Reversed.


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