TOMMY LEE WILLIAMS, APPELLANT,

v.

STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLEE

Citator

Cited By (13 total)

• Noreen Dows and Gregory Dows v. Nike, Inc., 846 So. 2d 595 (Fla. 4th DCA 2003)
  …etion of a binding agreement. See Williams v. Ingram, 605 So. 2d 890, 893 (Fla. 1st DCA 1992). Where essential terms of an agreement remain open, and subject to future negotiation, there can be no enforceable contract. See Suggs v. Defranco’s, Inc., 626 So. 2d 1100, 1101 (Fla. 1st DCA 1993). The handwritten mediation document evinced the parties agreement to agree. It also clearly evinced the parties’ intent to take further action prior to completing the binding agreement. As such, there was clearly no enforce…
• de Cespedes v. Laida Bolanos, 711 So. 2d 216 (Fla. 3d DCA 1998)
  …tion of the patients. The lower court agreed that these missing terms were essential and declined to enforce the settlement agreement. We reverse. “Settlement agreements are interpreted according to the law of contracts.” Suggs v. Defranco’s, Inc., 626 So. 2d 1100, 1100 (Fla. 1st DCA 1993). For such an agreement to be legally enforceable, it must be firm or definite in its essential terms. See Metropolitan Dade County v. Estate of Hernandez, 591 So. 2d 1124, 1124 (Fla. 3d DCA 1992). “Even though all the detai…
• MAY v. Sessums & Mason, P.A., 700 So. 2d 22 (Fla. 2d DCA 1997)
  …icable method by which Mrs. May could relate them to any proposed fee. The client in such a case is left to the merey of the contracting attorney and those experts qualified to opine as to the attorney’s worth. See further Suggs v. Defranco’s, Inc., 626 So. 2d 1100 (Fla. 1st DCA 1993) [“Where essential terms of an agreement remain open, subject to future negotiations, there can be no enforceable contract”]; Truly Nolen, Inc. v. Atlas Moving & Storage Warehouses, Inc., 125 So. 2d 903 (Fla. 3d DCA 1961), cert. d…

Authorities Cited

• Rock v. State, 622 So. 2d 487 (Fla. 1st DCA 1993)