State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Jones

• Decision Date: 16 April 1981
• Docket Number: No. 58812,58812
• Citation: 397 So.2d 684
• Parties: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Petitioner, v. John David JONES, Government Employees Insurance Company and Lewis P. Barwick, Respondents.
• Court: Florida Supreme Court

Page 684

397 So.2d 684

STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Petitioner, v. John David JONES, Government Employees Insurance Company and Lewis P. Barwick, Respondents.

No. 58812.

Supreme Court of Florida.

April 16, 1981.

Certiorari to the District Court of Appeal, Fifth District Case No. 79-117/T4-370.

James O. Driscoll of Driscoll, Langston, Layton & Kane, Orlando, for petitioner.

Ronald L. Harrop of Gurney, Gurney & Handley, Orlando, for respondents.

PER CURIAM.

The decision of the Fifth District Court of Appeal in Jones v. Barwick, 386 So.2d 7 (Fla. 5th DCA 1980), is quashed on the authority of Florida Farm Bureau Ins. Co. v. Government Employees Ins. Co., 387 So.2d 932 (Fla.1980).

It is so ordered.

SUNDBERG, C. J., and BOYD, OVERTON, ENGLAND, ALDERMAN and McDONALD, JJ., concur.

ADKINS, J., dissents.