Markham v. Gold

Full title: WILLIAM MARKHAM, as Broward County Property Appraiser, Appellant, v. MARC…

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District

Date published: Mar 3, 2004

866 So. 2d 777 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2004)

Opinion

Case No. 4D02-4361.

Opinion filed March 3, 2004.

Appeal and cross-appeal from the Circuit Court for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit, Broward County, Amy Dean, Judge on temporary assignment, L.T. Case No. 98-12646-07.

Gaylord A. Wood, Jr., J. Christopher Woolsey, and B. Jordan Stuart of Law Offices of Wood Stuart, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.

Barbara A. Heyer of Heyer Associates, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellees.

PER CURIAM.

We affirm the decision granting an agricultural classification to appellees' property. We reverse the award of attorney's fees under section 57.105, Florida Statutes (1998). We remand to the circuit court, which may consider the propriety of attorney's fees on appellees' motion for sanctions relating to their motion to strike amended complaint. See Moakley v. Smallwood, 826 So.2d 221 (Fla. 2002); Bitterman v. Bitterman, 714 So.2d 356 (Fla. 1998).

STONE, GROSS and HAZOURI, JJ., concur.