Kottmeier v. General Motors Acceptance Corp., 76336

• Court: United States State Supreme Court of Florida
• Writing for the Court: McDONALD; SHAW
• Citation: 16 Fla. L. Weekly 224,575 So.2d 1293
• Parties: 16 Fla. L. Weekly 224 June H. KOTTMEIER, etc., Petitioner, v. GENERAL MOTORS ACCEPTANCE CORPORATION, etc., Respondent.
• Docket Number: No. 76336,76336
• Decision Date: 21 March 1991

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575 So.2d 1293 16 Fla. L. Weekly 224 June H. KOTTMEIER, etc., Petitioner,
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GENERAL MOTORS ACCEPTANCE CORPORATION, etc., Respondent. No. 76336. Supreme Court of Florida. March 21, 1991.

Application for Review of the Decision of the District Court of Appeal--Certified Great Public Importance.

Joel D. Eaton, Podhurst, Orseck, Josefsberg, Eaton, Meadow, Olin & Perwin, P.A., Miami, and Wagner, Cunningham, Vaughan & McLaughlin, P.A., Tampa, for petitioner.

Larry I. Gramovot, Mallery & Zimmerman, S.C., Wausau, Wis., for respondent.

McDONALD, J.

We review Kottmeier v. General Motors Acceptance Corp., 561 So.2d 1369, 1369 (Fla. 2d DCA 1990), because it was certified as being of great public importance and "involves whether under circumstances like those recited in Kraemer [v. General Motors Acceptance Corp., 556 So.2d 431 (Fla. 2d DCA 1989),] a long-term lessor of an automobile may be held liable under the dangerous instrumentality doctrine to a plaintiff injured by the operation of the automobile." In Kraemer v. General Motors Acceptance Corp., 572 So.2d 1363 (Fla.1990), we answered the question in the affirmative and quashed the decision of the district court. We therefore quash the decision under review and remand for further proceedings consistent with our opinion in Kraemer. ^*

It is so ordered.

SHAW, C.J., and OVERTON, BARKETT, GRIMES, KOGAN and HARDING, JJ., concur.

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* The accident in this case occurred prior to the effective date of § 324.021(9)(b), Fla.Stat. (Supp.1986), and, thus, that statute is not applicable in this case.