ROBERT P. POWELEIT AND CAROLE E. POWELEIT, APPELLANTS,

v.

LEE ONA HUNTER, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By

• Reaves v. Armstrong World Indus., Inc., 569 So. 2d 1307 (Fla. 4th DCA 1990)
  …ence that. Reaves would not have contracted asbestosis absent the negligence of these defendants, constitutes the type of compounding inference on inference prohibited under the case law of the State of Florida. Girdley Construction Co. v. Ohmstede, 465 So. 2d 594 (Fla. 1st DCA 1985). “The Court is cognizant of the line of Florida summary judgment cases, (Ward, Rubley, Vilardebo, etc.) which appear to hold that coworkers may be used to tie product identification to the plaintiff. These cases are not appropri…
• Espada Enters., Inc. v. Spiro, 481 So. 2d 1265 (Fla. 1st DCA 1986)
  …assumptions and inferences that were not based on competent, substantial evidence. We recently condemned a deputy from impermissibly stacking inference upon inference to ultimately find a claim compensable. See Girdley Construction Co. v. Ohmstede, 465 So. 2d 594 (Fla. 1st DCA 1985). Accordingly, we adopt the following language from an opinion of a New York appellate court and apply it to the case at bar: “[A]ny continuity of events to establish that ... [the employee’s death] arose in the course of his empl…
• Streeter v. Robert E. Bondurant, M.D., 563 So. 2d 729 (Fla. 1st DCA 1990)
  …in the esophagus by appellee. Appellee’s reliance upon Voelker v. Combined Insurance Company of America, 73 So. 2d 403 (Fla.1954), Gaidymowicz v. Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc., 371 So. 2d 212 (Fla. 3d DCA 1979), Girdley Construction Company v. Ohmstede, 465 So. 2d 594 (Fla. 1st DCA 1985), and Allstate Insurance Company v. Bandiera, 512 So. 2d 1082 (Fla. 4th DCA 1987), review denied, 520 So. 2d 583 (Fla.1988), is misplaced. None of these cases concern an appeal from a summary judgment. Voelker was a consolidated a…