GENERAL ACCIDENT FIRE & LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, APPELLANT,

v.

WILLIAM A. COLLINS AND FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY, APPELLEES

Citator

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• Gulf Pines Mem'l Park, Inc. v. Oaklawn Mem'l Park, Inc., 361 So. 2d 695 (Fla. 1978)
  …atement was echoed in Mitchell, 346 So. 2d at 568. . See, e. g., Sheldon v. Powell, 99 Fla. 782, 128 So. 258 (1930); Trafalgar Developers, Ltd. v. Morley, 305 So. 2d 274 (Fla. 3d DCA 1974); Hialeah Race Course, Inc. v. Gulfstream Park Racing Ass’n, 210 So. 2d 750 (Fla. 4th DCA 1968). . § 86.101, Fla.Stat. (1975). . See n. 6 above. . The rule is well established that “in the absence of clear legislative expression to the contrary, a law is presumed to operate prospectively.” Walker & LaBerge, Inc. v. Halli…
• The Sch. Bd. OF Leon Cnty. v. Mitchell, 346 So. 2d 562 (Fla. 1st DCA 1977)
  …pendents, Inc., 143 So. 2d 904 (Fla. 2nd DCA 1962)), and to settle and afford relief from insecurity and uncertainty with respect to rights, status and other equitable or legal relations. (Hialeah Race Course, Inc. v. Gulf Stream Park Racing Ass’n., 210 So. 2d 750 (Fla. 4th DCA 1968)). Notwithstanding the above, the courts soon recognized that the scope of the declaratory judgment action was not infinite and that certain restrictions would be imposed upon its use. In fact, the Supreme Court, in a seminal opi…
• Mayme Bondu v. Ruben Gurvich, M.D., 473 So. 2d 1307 (Fla. 3d DCA 1978)
  …doctrine in each case turns on the particular facts alleged in each action and the particular disposition of the allegations in the first action. Florida is in accord with this viewpoint.” Hialeah Race Course, Inc. v. Gulfstream Park Racing Ass’n, 210 So. 2d 750, 753-54 (Fla. 4th DCA 1968), quoted with approval in Hialeah Race Course, Inc. v. Gulfstream Racing Ass’n, 245 So. 2d 625 (Fla.1971) (emphasis supplied) (citations omitted). II. As we are obliged to do, see Applegate v. Barnett Bank of Tallahassee…