TOWN OF NORTH MIAMI, FLORIDA, A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION,
v.
STATE OF FLORIDA, EX REL., J. TOM WATSON, ATTORNEY GENERAL, AND WADE H. HORN

Fla. | 1945-07-10
CHAPMAN, C. J., TERRELL and ADAMS, JJ., concur.
156 Fla. 340 Florida Supreme Court (1945) Positive Treatment
Also reported at: 22 So. 2d 762
Cited by 11 cases

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Synopsis

The Florida Supreme Court reversed a judgment of ouster, holding that the defendant's answer denying material allegations in the information was sufficient to raise an issue of fact, thus requiring the relator to prove those allegations.


Holding

Yes, the amended answer denying material allegations was sufficient to raise an issue of fact, and the relator was required to prove those allegations.


Key Quotes

“The answer categorically denied many of the material allegations of the information and thereby presented an issue of fact.”

Establishes that the defendant's answer raised a factual dispute.

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Facts & Procedural History

The State filed an information seeking a judgment of ouster against the Town of North Miami. The Town filed an amended answer that denied many of the …

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Opinion of the Court
BUFORD, J.

BUFORD, J.

The appeal brings for review judgment of ouster entered upon demurrer sustained to an amended answer. The answer categorically denied many of the material allegations of the information and thereby presented an issue of fact.

It is true that amended answer did not sufficiently allege any matter by way of affirmative defense; but the allegations of the amended answer denying the material allegations of the information were sufficient to require relator to prove those material allegations which were so denied.

• Therefore, the judgment should be reversed on authority of our opinion and judgment in the case of City of North Miami Beach v. State ex rel. Watson, as Attorney General, et al., 152 Fla. 478, 12 So. (2nd) 167, and cases there cited.

It is so ordered.

CHAPMAN, C. J., TERRELL and ADAMS, JJ., concur.


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    …the motion, together with the affidavit, alleged that the hospital had a meritorious defense to the action inasmuch as it had not been negligent in its treatment of the infant respondent. In Town of North Miami v. State ex rel. Watson, 156 Fla. 340, 22 So. 2d 762, we held that the denial of negligence contained in a responsive pleading alleged a meritorious defense so as to create an issue of fact. A similar holding was reached in State Bank of Eau Gallie v. Raymond, 103 Fla. 649, 138 So. 40. See also Benedi…
  • State of Fla. ex rel. Bernard M. Shotkin v. Buchanan, 149 So. 2d 574 (Fla. 3d DCA 1963)
    …f any appellate court in this state. Cases such as State v. Horne, 52 Fla. 125, 42 So. 388, 7 L.R.A., N.S., 719; Terrell v. Wiggins, 55 Fla. 596, 46 So. 727; State ex rel. Libtz v. Coleman, 149 Fla. 28, 5 So. 2d 60; Craton v. Sinclair, 156 Fla. 341, 22 So. 2d 762; Sinclair v. State, Fla.App.1957, 99 So. 2d 238; and State v. Bateh, Fla.1959, 110 So. 2d 7; and others to which we could allude, have been examined and would seem to bear on the point but are of little aid in reaching a conclusion. The question wi…
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