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United States v. F. Lee Bailey
The Florida Supreme Court has stated “that an action in trover is a possessory action ... founded upon a disturbance of [the] plaintiff’s right to possession,” Fletcher v. Dees, 101 Fla. 402 , 134 So. 234, 235 (1931) (emphasis added), and as the district court accurately observed in this case, “Bailey was never in a position to harm the United States’ posses-sory interest in the Legal Trust Fund.” Bailey, 288 F.Supp.2d at 1278 .
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United States v. Crawford
In Fletcher v. Dees, 101 Fla. 402, 403 , 134 So. 234, 235 (Fla.1931), the Florida Supreme Court upheld the right of a timber company to bring suit for the conversion of trees that were subject to the company’s lien, even though the defendant owned the land that produced the trees.
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HOLLYWOOD IMPORTS LIMITED, INC. d/b/a AUTONATION HONDA HOLLYWOOD v. NATIONWIDE FINANCIAL SERVICES, LLC and JAVIER FERNANDO MURCIA
It is well settled that “one who has a special interest in personal property can only recover in a conversion action the value of his interest in the property.” Mercury Motor Exp., Inc. v. Crockett, 422 So. 2d 358, 359 (Fla. 1st DCA 1982) (quoting Page, 386 So. 2d at 816 ); see also Fletcher v. Dees, 134 So. 234, 235 (Fla. 1931) (holding that “one who has a special interest can only recover the value of his special interest in the property”); Stearns v. Landmark First Nat’l Bank of Fort Lauderdale, 498 So. 2d 1001, 1002 (Fla. 4th DCA 1986) (plaintiff in a conversion action against ba…
M. W. Woolsey, Appellant, vs. Indian Prairie Subdrainage District, a Corporation, Appellee
W. W. Whitehurst, for Appellant;
Treadwell Treadwell, for Appellee.
Whitfield, Terrell, Davis.
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-This cause having heretofore been submitted to the Court upon the transcript of the record of the order herein, and briefs and argument of counsel for the respective parties, and the record having been seen and inspected, and the Court being now advised of its judgment to be given in the premises, it seems to the Court that there is no error in the said order; it is, therefore, considered, ordered and decreed by the Court that the said order of the Circuit Court be, and the same is hereby affirmed.