District Court of Appeal of Florida

Denial of tenants' claim for apportionment of proceeds paid to a property owner following an exercise of eminent domain powers and a taking of the property is reversed where: 1) plaintiffs held a leasehold interest in the property at issue; 2) neither a claimed abandonment nor a foreclosure action justified a failure to compensate plaintiffs; and 3) the trial court erred in striking expert testimony.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/15/2006
• Published 03/15/2006

Judges

• STEVENSON, C.J.

Court

• District Court of Appeal of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Temple Fett Kearns, Sidney C. Calloway and Edward J. O'Sheehan of Shutts & Bowen LLP, Fort Lauderdale, for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael D. Brown of Brown & Associates, P.A., Riviera Beach, for appellee 926 Company, Inc.