S.E. Assoc. v. First Georgia Bank

Full title: SOUTHEASTERN ASSOCIATES, INC., APPELLANT, v. FIRST GEORGIA BANK, APPELLEE

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District

Date published: Oct 20, 1978

362 So. 2d 967 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1978)

Opinion

No. II-381.

August 25, 1978. Rehearing Denied October 20, 1978.

Appeal from Circuit Court, Duval County; Sam Goodfriend, Judge.

Larry L. Bryan, Jacksonville Beach, for appellant.

George L. Hudspeth of Mahoney, Hadlow Adams, Jacksonville, for appellee.

SMITH, Acting Chief Judge.

An appeal from a money judgment entered on a promissory note. The appellant corporation asserts that the trial court erred in declining to permit its sole stockholder, a layman, to act as attorney for the corporation and to conduct its defense. The court did not err. A corporation is not a person entitled to conduct its own defense, nor may it nominate a nonlawyer to do so. Nicholson Supply Co. v. First Federal Savings Loan Ass'n, 184 So.2d 438 (Fla. 2d DCA 1966); Angelini v. Mobile Home Village, Inc., 310 So.2d 776 (Fla. 1st DCA 1975).

AFFIRMED.

MELVIN and BOOTH, JJ., concur.