The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XLV
TORTS

Chapter 768
NEGLIGENCE

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F.S. 768.07

768.07 Railroad liability for injury to employees.—If any person is injured by a railroad company by the running of the locomotives or cars, or other machinery of such company, the person being at the time of such injury an employee of the company, and the damage was caused by negligence of another employee, and without fault or negligence on the part of the person injured, her or his employment by the company shall be no bar to a recovery. No contract which restricts such liability shall be legal or binding.

History.—s. 3, ch. 4071, 1891; GS 3150; RGS 4966; CGL 7053; s. 1160, ch. 97-102.

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Amendments to 768.07

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 768.07

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 768.07.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

GULF AND SHIP ISLAND RAILROAD COMPANY v. THE UNITED STATES, 58 Ct. Cl. 41 (Ct. Cl. 1923)

. . . The amount of the bill CS-66, $768.07, is not contested. . . . rendered by the said carriers, the plaintiff, as the last carrier, rendered its bills numbered CS-66, for $768.07 . . .