COSMOPOLITAN LAND COMPANY, A CORPORATION, APPELLANT,
v.
J. L. DRANE, TRUSTEE, AND J. L. DRANE, JAMES M. CURRY, JOSIE SINCLAIR, J. REED CURRY, C. C. COMMANDER, C. E. STEWART, J. A. SAVARESE, T. H. SCOVELL AND HINES F. VAUGHN, COPARTNERS TRADING AND DOING BUSINESS UNDER FIRM NAME AND STYLE OF T. H. SCOVELL & SONS, ENTERPRISE PROPERTIES, INC., A CORPORATION, J. P. MCWILLIAMS, MRS. J. P. MCWILLIAMS, KNOWN AS EUNICE G. MCWILLIAMS, HARRIET E. KERR, W. D. BURNETT, G. W. BAILEY AND HARRY BOMFORD, APPELLEES

Fla. | 1929-04-10
Whitfield, P. J., and Strum and Buford, J. J., concur., Terrell, C. J., and Brown, J., concur in the opinion and judgment., Ellis, J., not participating.
97 Fla. 525 Florida Supreme Court (1929)

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Synopsis

The Florida Supreme Court reversed a lower court's judgment, citing prior case law and legal authorities on rescission and cancellation.


Holding

The court found error in the lower court's judgment and reversed it.


Key Quotes

“there is error in the said judgment and that the same should be reversed on authority of the opinion in the case of Langley v. Irons Land & Development Co., 94 Fla. 1010, 114 So. R. 769 and authorities there cited, both in the main opinion and in the concurring opinion by Mr. Justice Strum”

This quote explains the basis for the court's decision to reverse the lower court's judgment.

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Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam.

Per Curiam.

This cause having heretofore been submitted to the Court upon the transcript of the record of the judgment herein, and briefs and argument of counsel for the respective parties, and the record having been seen and inspected, and the Court being now advised of its judgment to be given in the premises, it seems to the Court that there is error in the said judgment and that the same should be reversed on authority of the opinion in the case of Langley v. Irons Land & Development Co., 94 Fla. 1010, 114 So. R. 769 and authorities there cited, both in the main opinion and in the concurring opinion by Mr. Justice Strum, and it is so ordered. See also Black on Recission and Cancellation, (2nd Ed.) Sec. 419.

Reversed.

Whitfield, P. J., and Strum and Buford, J. J., concur. Terrell, C. J., and Brown, J., concur in the opinion and judgment.

Ellis, J., not participating.


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