Florida Statute 769.1 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XLV
TORTS

Chapter 769
HAZARDOUS OCCUPATIONS

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F.S. 769.01

769.01 Employers affected by fellow servant act.—This chapter shall apply to persons engaged in the following hazardous occupations in this state; namely, railroading, operating street railways, generating and selling electricity, telegraph and telephone business, express business, blasting and dynamiting, operating automobiles for public use, boating, when boat is propelled by steam, gas or electricity.

History.—s. 1, ch. 6521, 1913; RGS 4971; CGL 7058.

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Cases Citing Statute 769.01

Total Results: 6

Ake v. Birnbaum

25 So. 2d 213, 156 Fla. 735, 1945 Fla. LEXIS 982

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Jul 20, 1945 | Docket: 3274924

Cited 75 times | Published

wrongful act statutes, aided as to proof by section 769.01. F.S. 1941, the hazardous occupations act.

Florida Power and Light Co. v. Price

170 So. 2d 293

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Dec 21, 1964 | Docket: 1524853

Cited 69 times | Published

one of the class of persons referred to in F.S. § 769.01, F.S.A., but this alone does not render it liable

Railway Express Agency, Inc. v. Fulmer

227 So. 2d 870, 1969 Fla. LEXIS 2154

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Nov 12, 1969 | Docket: 1390659

Cited 19 times | Published

provides as follows: "The persons mentioned in § 769.01 [persons engaged in hazardous occupations] shall

Price v. Florida Power and Light Co.

159 So. 2d 654

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Dec 13, 1963 | Docket: 423708

Cited 4 times | Published

as persons engaged in a hazardous occupation. § 769.01, Florida Statutes, F.S.A. In other jurisdictions

Jones v. Brink

39 So. 2d 791, 1949 Fla. LEXIS 1321

Supreme Court of Florida | Filed: Feb 25, 1949 | Docket: 3259657

Cited 3 times | Published

were not engaged in any occupation outlined in Section 769.01, Florida Statutes 1941, and F.S.A. To meet

Maule Industries, Inc. v. Watson

201 So. 2d 631, 1967 Fla. App. LEXIS 4660

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Aug 1, 1967 | Docket: 64502046

Published

the defendant, came within the provisions of § 769.01, Fla.Stat., F.S.A., the Florida Supreme Court