When Finley knocked on the door, no one responded. When Finley checked the door, he found it chained from the inside. When Finley called out, no one answered. Ms. Patterson’s son, however, insisted that Marquette was inside. As Finley walked off the porch, three shotgun blasts came through the window and struck him. There was an exchange of gunfire, and the police launched tear gas into the house. A small fire broke out. The shooting from inside the house stopped. The police entered. Marquette was dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Ms. Patterson had died next to Marquette, in a kneeling position, possibly from smoke inhalation. Finley sued Ms. Patterson’s estate, seeking damages on theories of negligence and wantonness. The trial court directed a verdict for the estate explainin (<HOLDING>). 3 . We note that in Nail, 542 So.2d at 1211,
holding a wife liable for necessary medical expenses incurred by her husband under the doctrine even though the wife did not sign as a guarantor and did not request that her husband be admitted nor anticipate that her husband would be admitted holding wife did not have a duty to warn a police officer who was shot while escorting her home that her husband had threatened to kill any police officer recognizing affirmative duty of a police officer to prevent the violation of constitutional rights by another officer holding police officer who was shot by occupier of premises could not recover from premises owner for injuries the officer should have reasonably expected to sustain while engaged in the line of duty holding admissible a letter which a woman had purportedly written to a judge 2 days before her death stating that her husband had threatened her and she feared him where the defendant husband claimed she had threatened him