WAYNE G. MARVEL, APPELLANT,

v.

STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By (13 total)

• Price v. Morgan, 436 So. 2d 1116 (Fla. 5th DCA 1983)
  …hile on premises in the fulfillment of their duties as such, are licensees, to whom the property owner has only the duty to refrain from wilful or wanton injury. Fred Howland, Inc. v. Morris, 143 Fla. 189, 196 So. 472 (1940). In Romedy v. Johnston, 193 So. 2d 487 (Fla. 1st DCA 1967), the First District Court of Appeal, while recognizing the language in Fred Howland as dictum, nevertheless agreed that a fireman upon the premises for the purpose of extinguishing a fire is a licensee, and the duty of the owner…
• Kilpatrick v. Sklar, 548 So. 2d 215 (Fla. 1989)
  …ensees. The theory — and it is a correct one — upon which such holdings are based is that of overwhelming necessity, and no duty rests upon the property owner to protect such licensees from injury. Id. at 199; 196 So. at 476. In Romedy v. Johnston, 193 So. 2d 487 (Fla. 1st DCA 1967), the district court, while recognizing that the above statement in Howland was dicta, determined it was in accordance with the common law and majority view in the country and should be followed. The rule has now been fully implem…

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• Adair v. THE Island Club, 225 So. 2d 541 (Fla. 2d DCA 1969)
  …that he rid the area of the escaping gas by the removal of the container his duties as a city policeman had been completed and that his legal status was changed from a licensee to a business invitee. He quotes from Romedy v. Johnston, Fla.App.1967, 193 So. 2d 487, where the Court said: “The position taken by appellant [that firemen should be implied invitees] has been considered and passed on by other courts in cases similar to the one now before us for review. This contention has been rejected for the reas…