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BEAUCHAMP v. YAZOO VALLEY OIL & MILLING CO., INC.

No. VV-285.

403 So.2d 554 (1981)

Lamar BEAUCHAMP, Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. YAZOO VALLEY OIL AND MILLING CO., INC., and Bell Dryer, Inc., Appellees/Cross-Appellants.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied September 29, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest A. Sellers and Andrew J. Decker, III of Airth, Sellers & Lewis, Live Oak, for appellant/cross-appellee.

Robert Wilhelm of Howell, Howell, Liles, Braddock & Milton, Jacksonville, for appellees/cross-appellants.

ROBERT P. SMITH, Jr., Chief Judge.

In this action against a feed supplier for damage to a cattle herd in which appellant Beauchamp had a security interest, the trial court charged Beauchamp with vicarious responsibility for the owner's contributory negligence and correspondingly reduced Beauchamp's recovery from $83,500, the total damages assessed by the jury, to $12,525. We find there is no basis for attributing the owner's contributory negligence to Beauchamp, so...

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