GRAHAM v. FLAMINGO WAY ENTERPRISES LLC (2018)

In these consolidated appeals, appellants Stanley G. Tate and Anamarie Kelly Stoppa (case number 3D17-1753) and appellant Thomas Graham (case number 3D17-2505) each appeal separate orders of the trial court denying their respective motions seeking to vacate a September 15, 2016 final judgment entered by the trial court. This final judgment authorized a statutory trustee of a dissolved corporation to execute documents associated with the transfer of property from the dissolved corporation to appellee Flamingo Way Enterprises, LLC.

We affirm the order in case number 3D17-1753 because the trial court correctly concluded that appellants Tate and Stoppa lacked standing to challenge the final judgment. We reverse the order as to appellant Graham, however, and remand to the trial court to conduct an evidentiary hearing on Graham's September 14, 2017 rule 1.540(b)(3) motion and appellee's response in opposition to same. Rusniaczek v. Tableau Fine Art Grp., Inc., 139 So.3d 355, 337 (Fla. 3d DCA 2014).¹

Affirmed in part; reversed in part and remanded.

FOOTNOTES

1.   We express no opinion as to the merits of Graham's claim that the September 15, 2016 final judgment was the result of fraud, nor do we express an opinion regarding any of appellee's defenses asserted to Graham's claim.

PER CURIAM.