Inversiones Brindisi S.A. v. O'Connor

Full title: INVERSIONES BRINDISI, S.A., APPELLANT, v. JOHN E. O'CONNOR, JR., PHILIP J…

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District

Date published: Sep 12, 1984

454 So. 2d 67 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1984)

Opinion

No. 84-503.

August 14, 1984. Rehearing Denied September 12, 1984.

Appeal from Circuit Court, Dade County; William A. Herin, Judge.

Paul, Landy, Beiley Harper and Barry D. Hunter, Miami, for appellant.

Mershon, Sawyer, Johnston, Dunwody Cole and Jeffrey R. Surlas and Richard M. Bezold, Miami, for appellees.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and BARKDULL and JORGENSON, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

Affirmed on the authority of the

universal [rule] that where one makes a payment of any sum under a claim of right with knowledge of the facts such a payment is voluntary and cannot be recovered. Blumenthal v. United States, D.C.S.D.Cal. 1925, 4 F.2d 808; Deppe v. Lufkin, 1 Cir., 1940, 116 F.2d 483; 40 Am.Jur., Payment, § 155, citing many cases.

City of Miami v. Keton, 115 So.2d 547, 551 (Fla. 1959); see 39 Fla.Jur.2d Payment and Tender § 42 (1982), and cases and authorities cited.