77 So. 2d 611 (1955) Hattie S. ZINNSER, Irene Worster and Edna C. Rutkin, Appellants, v. B.A. GREGORY, Lloyd B. Browning and Donn Gregory, as Executors of the Will of Emmitte H. Carter, Deceased, Appellees. Supreme Court of Florida. En Banc. January 25, 1955. Ramseur, Bradham & Clark, St Petersburg, Joseph P. Lieb and Fowler, White, Gillen, Yancey & Humkey, Tampa, and Cotton & Shivers, Tallahassee, for appellants. Gregory & Cours, Tampa, for B.A. Gregory, Lloyd B. Browning and Donn Gregory as...
81 So. 2d 555 (1955) Charlotte C. YOVAN, Appellant, v. BURDINE's, a Florida corporation, Appellee. Supreme Court of Florida. Division A. June 22, 1955. *556 Phillip D. Anderson, West Palm Beach, for appellant. Earnest, Lewis, Smith & Jones, Culver Smith and William A. Foster, West Palm Beach, for appellee. TERRELL, Justice. Appellee was the owner and operator of a store in West Palm Beach at which appellant was employed to display and sell the goods of Rex Cutlery Company. December 23, 1952,...
83 So. 2d 417 (1955) Emmett YOUNG, Appellant, v. Henry COBBS, Appellee. Supreme Court of Florida, Division A. October 26, 1955. Rehearing Denied December 5, 1955. *418 John F. Allison, Miami, for appellant. Broad & Cassel, Lewis Horwitz and L.J. Cushman, Miami Beach, for appellee. ROBERTS, Justice. Plaintiff sued defendant to recover his damages sustained by reason of defendant's unlawfully evicting him from store space leased by him from defendant. The defendant's answer was a simple denial of...
81 So. 2d 219 (1955) Mary G. YODER et al., Appellants, v. SARASOTA COUNTY, a body politic of the State of Florida, Appellee. Supreme Court of Florida. Special Division B. June 15, 1955. *220 Robertson & Robertson, Sarasota, for appellants. Glenn L. Berry, Sarasota, for appellee. THORNAL, Justice. Appellants Harry A. Gregg and wife were defendants below in an eminent domain proceeding instituted by Sarasota County to condemn certain lands of appellants for a public beach and recreation purposes,...
80 So. 2d 910 (1955) Hyman YAFFEE, individually and as Trustee, Appellant, v. INTERNATIONAL COMPANY, Inc., a Florida corporation, Appellee. Supreme Court of Florida. En Banc. June 1, 1955. Rehearing Denied July 1, 1955. *911 Caldwell, Parker, Foster & Wigginton, Tallahassee, J.M. Flowers, Miami, and Royal Flagg Jonas, Miami Beach, for appellant. Patton & Kanner, Miami, for appellee. SEBRING, Justice. The appeal is from a final declaratory decree entered in favor of the plaintiff below upon the...
79 So. 2d 690 (1955) Charles T. WYNNE, Appellant, v. LUDMAN CORPORATION, a Florida corporation, Appellee. Supreme Court of Florida. Special Division B. April 20, 1955. Philip T. Weinstein and Paul A. Louis, Miami, for appellant. Douglas D. Batchelor, Davis S. Batcheller and Smathers, Thompson, Maxwell & Dyer, Miami, for appellee. MATHEWS, Chief Justice. In this case the appellant, plaintiff below, in his amended complaint alleged a definite contract, dated in May, 1952, whereby the appellee...
84 So. 2d 32 (1955) D. Edward WOOD, Appellant, v. Myrtle B. WILSON, Appellee. Supreme Court of Florida. Division A. December 14, 1955. *33 W. Shannon Linning, Jacksonville, for appellant. Crawford & May and Tyrie A. Boyer, Jacksonville, for appellee. THORNAL, Justice. Appellant Wood, who was plaintiff below, appeals from an order of the Chancellor sustaining a motion to dismiss a complaint seeking a declaration of a lien for furnishing labor and materials for the improvement of real estate. On...
81 So. 2d 777 (1955) Virginia WOOD, Eleanor Scribner, Chief Clerk, Ruth Collins, Barbara Pichel, Concette Pellicciatti, Theryl Millington, Marie Vento, Dorothy O'Dell, Marjorie Brown, Edna Miller, May Lou Godwin, Mabel Davis, Hazel Platt, Marie Winkelspecht, Mary Brennan, Betty Reif, Tillie Briden, as constituting the inspectors of Election and Canvassing Board of the City of North Miami Beach, and George B. Slick, Appellants, v. Daniel D. DIEFENBACH, Appellee. Supreme Court of Florida. Special...
84 So. 2d 25 (1955) Nelson Filmore WOODFORD, Appellant, v. The CITY OF ST. PETERSBURG, a Florida Municipal Corporation, Appellee. Supreme Court of Florida. Special Division A. December 14, 1955. Robert G. McNulty and McNulty & McNulty, St. Petersburg, for appellant. Lewis T. Wray, Harry I. Young, Frank D. McDevitt and John Robert Terry, St. Petersburg, for appellee. THORNAL, Justice. Appellant Woodford, plaintiff below, seeks reversal of an order sustaining a motion to dismiss his complaint...
78 So. 2d 378 (1954) Susye Belle WELLS, as Administratrix of the Estate of H.H. Wells, deceased, and Susye Belle Wells and Mary Sue Wells Nolen, as sole surviving heirs of H.H. Wells, deceased; A.L. Wells, and C.B. Dunn, Appellants, v. Jefferson THOMAS, if living, and if dead, his unknown heirs, devisees and grantees; Anne Hartley Atkinson Gailliard as the sole surviving heir at Law of W.M. Atkinson, deceased; Mrs. Alfred Tyler; John Poe Tyler; Rom Tyler; Anne Tyler Pierpont; sole surviving...
82 So. 2d 155 (1955) Herman WEINER, H.S. McClelland and Jack Davis, Appellants, v. Thomas J. KELLY, Sheriff of Dade County, Florida, George Earl Brown, W.H. Gasque, Paul Cousins, and Thomas Sullivan, Appellees. Supreme Court of Florida. Division A. July 27, 1955. Rehearing Denied September 12, 1955. *156 Hilton R. Carr, Jr., and Herbert A. Warren, Jr., Miami, for appellants. Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen. and George E. Owen, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellees. TERRELL, Justice. Upon an affidavit...
82 So. 2d 743 (1955) Cecil M. WEBB, as Chairman et al., as Members of and Constituting the Members of the State Road Department of the State of Florida, Appellants, v. Melvin S. GIDDENS, Appellee. Supreme Court of Florida. Division B. September 14, 1955. Rehearing Denied November 1, 1955. *744 Bryan W. Henry, Miami, for appellant. Leon F. Weaver, Long Beach, for appellee. HOBSON, Justice. Plaintiff-appellee is a riparian owner of certain lands bordering on a small arm of Lake Jackson, a...
77 So. 2d 620 (1955) Ishmael WASHINGTON, Petitioner, v. Nathan MAYO, as Custodian of the Florida State Prison, Respondent. Supreme Court of Florida. Division A. January 28, 1955. Ishmael Washington, in pro. per. Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., and Reeves Bowen, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent. SEBRING, Justice. This is a habeas corpus proceeding wherein the petitioner questions the validity *621 of a judgment and sentence imposed upon him as a fourth offender under section 775.10, Florida...
85 So. 2d 623 (1955) WARSHAW-SEATTLE, INC., a Florida Corporation, Petitioner, v. Patricia CLARK, Wavel S. Clark, and Malcolm Lewis Kneale, Respondent. Supreme Court of Florida. Special Division B. December 14, 1955. Rehearing Denied February 22, 1956. *624 Anderson & Nadeau, Miami, for petitioner. Caldwell, Parker, Foster, Wigginton & Miller and Malcolm S.H. Kneale, Miami, for respondent. O'CONNELL, Justice. Warshaw-Seattle, Inc., the petitioner here and plaintiff below, on January 22, 1953...
81 So. 2d 493 (1955) Ruby P. WARD, Appellant, v. Frank H. HOPKINS, Appellee. Supreme Court of Florida. Special Division B. June 17, 1955. Rehearing Denied July 21, 1955. Fowler, White, Gillen, Yancey & Humkey, Tampa, for appellant. Branch & Goff and McEwen & Cason, Tampa, for appellee. DREW, Chief Justice, and THORNAL, Justice. In a negligence case arising out of the collision of two automobiles, one driven by the appellant, defendant below, and the other driven by the appellee, plaintiff below,...
80 So. 2d 669 (1955) John WALSH, Appellant, v. The MIAMI HERALD PUBLISHING CO., a Florida corporation, Appellee. Supreme Court of Florida. En Banc. May 25, 1955. Rehearing Denied June 20, 1955. Eli Breger, Miami Beach, for appellant. Edward E. Fleming, Miami, for appellee. HOBSON, Justice. The only question in this case is whether or not the amended complaint which was dismissed by the circuit court presented an actionable claim for libel per se. The appellant Walsh, in his amended complaint...
80 So. 2d 362 (1955) Leonard Alton WALL, Petitioner, v. Peggie JOHNSON, Respondent. Supreme Court of Florida. Special Division A. May 13, 1955. Jack Kehoe, Miami, for petitioner. Ginsberg & Pelle, Miami, for respondent. TERRELL, Justice. In January 1954, Peggie Johnson, the respondent, secured a final decree in the Circuit Court of Dade County adjudicating that Leonard Alton Wall, petitioner, was the father of her illegitimate child, Leonard Alton Wall, Jr., born July 23, 1943. The final decree...
78 So. 2d 371 (1955) Leonard Alton WALL, Appellant, v. Peggie JOHNSON, Appellee. Supreme Court of Florida. Division A. January 25, 1955. *372 Jack Kehoe, Miami, for appellant. Ginsberg & Pelle, Miami, for appellee. ROBERTS, Justice. The appellee, a resident of New York, filed suit against the appellant, a Florida resident, under Section 742.011, Florida Statutes, F.S.A., to obtain a decree declaring that appellant is the father of her child, born out of wedlock in July, 1943, in the State of...
77 So. 2d 800 (1955) UNITED SERVICE CORPORATION, a Florida corporation, Appellant, v. VI-AN CONSTRUCTION CORP., a Florida corporation, Jesse A. Owens and Mae Fincher Owens, his wife, Appellees. Supreme Court of Florida. Special Division A. January 25, 1955. Rehearing Denied February 22, 1955. *801 George J. Baya, Miami, for appellant. Herbert Schwarz, Miami, for John Nicholas, as Trustee & Receiver in Bankruptcy of the Estate of Vi-An Construction Corp. J. Tillman Pearson, Miami, for Jesse A....
77 So. 2d 629 (1955) UNITED LOAN CORPORATION OF TAMPA, a Florida Corporation, Appellant, v. Howard E. WEDDLE and M.A.C. Credit Co., Inc., a Florida Corporation, Appellees. Supreme Court of Florida. En Banc. January 28, 1955. Robert H. Carlton, Tampa, for appellant. James S. Welch and Leonard C. Carter, Lakeland, for appellees. PER CURIAM. Affirmed. TERRELL, THOMAS, HOBSON and ROBERTS, JJ., concur. MATHEWS, C.J., SEBRING and DREW, JJ., dissent. DREW, Justice (dissenting). The appellee, Weddle,...
