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indicating that for a "place of amusement where large crowds congregate," the duty is to maintain the premises in a "reasonably safe condition commensurate with the business conducted"
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No. 83-2995.
October 16, 1984.
Appeal from the Circuit Court, Dade County, Frederick N. Barad, J.
Horton, Perse Ginsberg and William P. Cagney, III, Miami, for appellants.
Ser, Decardenas, Levine, Busch Schnepper and Barry A. Stein, Miami, for appellee.
Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and HUBBART and FERGUSON, JJ.
The final judgment under review is affirmed upon a holding that the evidence presented below was sufficient to sustain a jury verdict for the plaintiff herein. The jury could have reasonably found on this evidence that the defendant failed to maintain its jai alai fronton business premises, a place of amusement where large crowds congregate, in a reasonably safe condition commensurate with the business conducted, which failure was a proximate cause of the plaintiff's injuries. Helman v. Seaboard Coast Line Railroad, 349 So.2d 1187, 1189 (Fla. 1977); Wells v. Palm Beach Kennel Club, 160 Fla. 502, 35 So.2d 720 (1948).
Affirmed.