MAE LOUISE BENSON, ALSO KNOWN AS MAY LOUISE BENSON, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN AND A FREE DEALER,

v.

ALICE E. BENSON

Citator

Cited By

• Fla. Police Benevolent Ass'n, Inc. v. Dep't of Agric. & Consumer Servs., 574 So. 2d 120 (Fla. 1991)
  …ception to this rule. Where a statutory list is exhaustive of members of the class in question, then general terminology following that list should not be considered limited solely to members of the same [*122] class. Schleman v. Guaranty Title Co., 153 Fla. 379, 15 So. 2d 754 (1943). This is a result required by the common-sense rule that all words in a statute should be construed so as to give them some effect, not so as to render them meaningless surplus-age. In other words, the courts should not presume…
• Pinewood Plumbing Supply, Inc. v. Centennial Constr., Inc., 489 So. 2d 216 (Fla. 3d DCA 1986)
  …cover in equity. Section 255.05 provides for an adequate remedy at law. Pinewood’s failure to comply with the notice requirements does not make the remedy inadequate. Thus Pinewood was not entitled to equitable relief. See American Surety v. Murphy, 13 So. 2d 442 (Fla.1943) (where a surety failed to file a breach of contract claim against a deceased’s estate within the statutory period, losing its otherwise enforceable legal remedy, equity lacked jurisdiction to compel specific performance absent a showing o…
• Genesee Corp. v. Owens, 155 Fla. 502 (Fla. 1945)
  …ed here so as to exclude by the language used in defining classes C and B the application of class D to the prop [*506] erty here involved. See Childrens Bootery v. Sutker, 91 Fla. 60, 107 So. 345, 44 A.L.R. 698. Also Schleman v. Guaranty Title Co., 153 Fla. 379, 15 So. (2nd) 754. Another rule which supports our conclusion is that exemptions must be strictly construed and carefully scrutinized because they are in the nature of special privileges or immunities and are viewed with disfavor by the courts. See…