TROPIGAS, S.A., APPELLANT,

v.

RICHARD ANDERSON, ET AL., APPELLEES

Citator

Cited By

• Certain Lands upon which special assessments are delinquent v. City OF Alachua, 518 So. 2d 386 (Fla. 1st DCA 1987)
  …eight and effect must be given to the title, as constituting a direct statement by the legislature of its intent. Webb, 398 So. 2d at 825. While the language of the statute should be accorded its common everyday meaning, Priest v. Plus Three, Inc., 447 So. 2d 338, 339 (Fla. 4th DCA), review denied, 453 So. 2d 44 (Fla.1984), that language should not be interpreted literally when to do so would lead to an unreasonable or absurd result. Holly v. Auld; Lee v. Casablanca Restaurant, 447 So. 2d 951 (Fla. 1st DCA 1…
• Piper Aircraft Corp. v. Anneliese Schwendemann, 578 So. 2d 319 (Fla. 3d DCA 1991)
  …5 (Fla.3d DCA 1985) (Schwartz, C.J., specially concurring); Adams v. Seaboard Coast Line R.R. Co., 224 So. 2d 797 (Fla. 1st DCA 1969); see Oboussier-Lowe v. Kuehne & Nagel (A.G. & Co.), 531 So. 2d 249 (Fla. 5th DCA 1988); Tropigas, S.A. v. Anderson, 447 So. 2d 338 (Fla.3d DCA 1984), pet. for review dismissed, 453 So. 2d 45 (Fla.1984), cert. denied, 469 U.S. 1074, 105 S.Ct. 568, 83 L.Ed.2d 509 (1984); Sempe v. Coordinated Caribbean Transport, Inc., 363 So. 2d 194 (Fla.3d DCA 1978), cert. denied, 372 So. 2d 467…
• Zebley v. Stuart Nissan and Feisco, 576 So. 2d 851 (Fla. 1st DCA 1991)
  …itions in resolving the question as to legislative intent. Such circumstances are not presented in the case before us. It is a well established rule that statutory language should be accorded its common everyday meaning. Priest v. Plus Three, Inc., 447 So. 2d 338 (Fla. 4th DCA), rev. denied, 453 So. 2d 44 (Fla.1984). The common everyday meaning of the term “amputation” does not encompass the surgical removal of a portion of a small disc. We need not refer to dictionary definitions to know this, though one wh…

Authorities Cited

• Houston v. Caldwell, 359 So. 2d 858 (Fla. 1978)
• Yewell Adams v. Seaboard Coast Line R.R. Co., 224 So. 2d 797 (Fla. 1st DCA 1969)
• Sempe v. Coordinated Caribbean Transp., Inc., 363 So. 2d 194 (Fla. 3d DCA 1978)