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Lake Osborne Util., Co., Inc. v. Sims

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District
Mar 31, 1982
411 So. 2d 994 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1982)

Opinion

No. 81-1218.

March 31, 1982.

Appeal from Circuit Court, Palm Beach County; R. William Rutter, Jr., Judge.

Mikel D. Greene of Farish, Farish Romani, West Palm Beach, for appellant.

Eugene E. Shuey of McGee, Johnson, Jordan Hutcheson, P.A., Lake Worth, for appellees James C. Sims and Imogene Whitaker.

David L. Danielson of Brennan, McAliley, Hayskar McAliley, P.A., West Palm Beach, for appellee Rice.


Plaintiff's amended complaint, alleging defendants' unreasonable interference with the plaintiff's utility easement, although held legally insufficient to state a cause of action, was not so utterly devoid of arguable merit as to be considered frivolous. On the authority of such cases as Whitten v. Progressive Casualty Insurance Co., 410 So.2d 501 (Fla. 1982), City of Deerfield Beach v. Oliver-Hoffman Corp. of Deerfield Beach, 396 So.2d 1187 (Fla. 4th DCA 1981), T.I.E. Communications v. Toyota Motors, 391 So.2d 697 (Fla. 3d DCA 1980) and Allen v. Estate of Dutton, 384 So.2d 171 (Fla. 5th DCA 1980), the order assessing attorneys' fees under Section 57.105, Florida Statutes (1979) is reversed.

REVERSED.

HERSEY and GLICKSTEIN, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Lake Osborne Util., Co., Inc. v. Sims

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District
Mar 31, 1982
411 So. 2d 994 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1982)
Case details for

Lake Osborne Util., Co., Inc. v. Sims

Case Details

Full title:LAKE OSBORNE UTILITIES COMPANY, INC., A FLORIDA CORPORATION, APPELLANT, v…

Court:District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District

Date published: Mar 31, 1982

Citations

411 So. 2d 994 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1982)