JOSEPH R. THOMPSON, JR., PETITIONER,

v.

M R & R TRUCKING COMPANY AND THE FLORIDA INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION, RESPONDENTS

Citator

Cited By

• Murphy v. Mack, 358 So. 2d 822 (Fla. 1978)
  …s recognized the peculiar status of the deputy. This Court, in Holland v. Mayes, 155 Fla. 129, 19 So. 2d 709 (Fla.1944), iterated that there is no relation as master and servant existing between the sheriff and his deputies. Cf. Mendez v. Blackburn, 226 So. 2d 340 (Fla.1969). Blackburn v. Brorein, supra, involved a suit by the Sheriff of Hillsborough County to determine the status of deputy sheriffs, i. e. whether they were employees of the sheriff or of the county. Describing at length the nature of the off…
• Dep't OF Child. & Fam. Servs. v. Chapman, 9 So. 3d 676 (Fla. 2d DCA 2009)
  …case law in Florida in the mid-1970s addressing the duties that governmental agencies and employees might owe in tort. For many years, sheriffs had been subject to civil actions for certain mistakes of their deputies. See, e.g., Mendez v. Blackburn, 226 So. 2d 340 (Fla.1969) (reversing summary judgment in favor of sheriffs office and concluding that the evidence presented a jury issue of whether sheriffs office was liable for deputies’ abuse of power after deputies beat plaintiff during arrest); Holland, for…
• Hamlin v. Lynn, 386 So. 2d 1309 (Fla. 1st DCA 1980)
  …for the acts of the deputies. The former does not. We hold appellants are liable. The deputies abused the power to arrest without a warrant for a felony which “has been committed.” § 901.15(2), Florida Statutes (1975). We think Mendez v. Blackburn, 226 So. 2d 340 (Fla.1969) is analogous. There, the petitioners claimed damages for false arrest, malicious prosecution, and assault and battery by two deputies who had undertaken to arrest Mendez for committing a felony in their presence. The court found an infere…