UNITED FRUIT CO.

v.

W. E. HEDGER TRANSPORTATION CORP.

Citator

Cited By (12 total)

• Castillo v. State, 590 So. 2d 458 (Fla. 3d DCA 1991)
  …ue “conviction” to mean an adjudication of guilt. See Ferguson v. State, 379 So. 2d 163, 164 (Fla. 3d DCA 1980); accord Burkett v. State, 518 So. 2d 1363, 1366 (Fla. 1st DCA 1988); see also Weathers v. State, 56 So. 2d 536, 538 (Fla.), cert. denied, 344 U.S. 896, 73 S.Ct. 276, 97 L.Ed. 692 (1952); Smith v. State, 75 Fla. 468, 78 So. 530 (1918); 14 Fla.Jur.2d, Criminal Law § 3 (1979). Where adjudication has been withheld, the offender is not a convicted felon. Since the defendant was not a convicted felon at…
• Cashell v. Hart, 143 So. 2d 559 (Fla. 2d DCA 1962)
  …, 358 U.S. 625, 79 S.Ct. 406, 3 L.Ed.2d 550. . 28 U.S.C.A. § 1333. . See Erie K. Co. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64, 58 S.Ct. 817, 82 L.Ed. 1188; Hedger Transp. Corp. v. United Fruit Co., 2 Cir., 1952, 198 F. 2d 376, 1952 A.M.C. 1469. Certiorari denied, 344 U.S. 896, 73 S.Ct. 275, 97 L.Ed. 692. . Rla.Stat. § 371.52 3T.S.A. was enacted to take effect July 1, 1959, several months after the incident here involved. This section declares, as a matter of public policy, that motorboats are dangerous instrumentalities…
• Aurelian Smith, Jr. v. Bartlett, 570 So. 2d 360 (Fla. 5th DCA 1990)
  …as “the adjudication by the court of the defendant’s guilt and the pronouncement by the court of the penalty imposed upon the defendant.” State v. Smith, 160 Fla. 288, 34 So. 2d 533 (1948); Weathers v. State, 56 So. 2d 536 (Fla.1952), cert. denied, 344 U.S. 896, 73 S.Ct. 276, 97 L.Ed. 692 (1952); and Delta Truck Brokers, Inc. v. King, 142 So. 2d 273 (Fla.1962). While the definition of conviction seems clear, still it must be considered in the context of the cases defining it. In Smith, the issue was wheth…