Third District Court of Appeal
State of Florida
Opinion filed March 16, 2022.
Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.
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No. 3D21-947
Lower Tribunal No. 18-36339
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Loretta Lizzotte,
Appellant,
vs.
City of Miami Springs, et al.,
Appellees.
An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Antonio
Arzola and Maria de Jesus Santovenia, Judges.
Law Office of Ansana D. Singh, P.A., and Ansana D. Singh, for
appellant.
Cole, Scott & Kissane, P.A., and Lissette Gonzalez, for appellee The
Suco Investment Group, Inc., d/b/a Woody’s West End Tavern.
Before EMAS, LOBREE and BOKOR, JJ.
PER CURIAM.
Affirmed. See Shields v. Food Fair,
106 So. 2d 90, 92 (Fla. 3d DCA
1958) (“The duty owed to invitees by an occupier of premises to maintain
them in a reasonably safe condition includes and extends to approaches to
the premises which are open to invitees in connection with their business on
the premises, and which approaches are so located and constituted as to
represent an invitation to visit the place of business and to use such means
of approach”). See also Gutierrez v. Dade Cty. Sch. Bd.,
604 So. 2d 852,
853 (Fla. 3d DCA 1992) (“A landowner is under a duty to invitees to maintain
his premises in a reasonably safe condition. That duty extends to the means
which the landowner has expressly provided for use by the invitees for
ingress and egress”); Marhefka v. Monte Carlo Mgmt. Corp.,
358 So. 2d
1171, 1172 (Fla. 3d DCA 1978).
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