WHITE v. METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY

No. 88-2450.

563 So.2d 117 (1990)

Helen WHITE, Dwight Hewett, Rafael Conte, Raul Llorente, Karen Llorente, Ignacio Tamayo, Owen Zayas Bazan, Dr. Eric Softley, Helmut Bracke, Helen Lancaster, Eugenio Albarran, George O'Brien, Enrique Audrain, Elsa Audrain, Louis Garisto, Juan Camacho, Vivian Camacho, Dr. Daniel Mandri, Monica Mandri, Jeronimo Paseiro, Dr. Claudina Mojer, Esteban Ferrer, Susan Ferrer, Helen Walker, Jeannie Fields Dubow, Martine A. Glasgall, Dr. Alonzo Portuondo, Madeline Portuondo, B.J. Grady, Toolie Millard, Laura Chamblis, Margaret O'Keefe, Marion Murphy, Henrietta Labarrere, Barbara Casper, Patricia Ryan, Dr. Alfredo Crucet, Delia Crucet, Ann Schubert, Carolyn Fowler, Alonzo Portuondo, Connie Portuondo, Christina Conte, George Fox, Maria Costa, Arnold McDonald, Graciela McDonald, Ernie Cambo, Dick Hodges, Thomas Roussel, Barbara Wheelock, J.J. Donoghue, Anne Donoghue, Dr. Eduardo Delgado, Richard O'Connell, Paul Crick, Anne Crick, Walter Sommer, Charles Austin, Tuck Austin, Devere Curtis, Muriel Curtis, Elena Cora, Miguel Bacallao, Rosario Bacallao, Robert Charbonneau, Renan Moreira, Margaret Matheson Randolph, and Malcolm Matheson, Jr., Appellants, v. METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

May 22, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walton Lantaff Schroeder & Carson and Gregory J. Willis, Miami, for appellants.

Robert A. Ginsburg, Deborah Bovarnick Mastin, and Eileen Ball Mehta, Miami, for appellee.

Tew, Jorden, Schulte & Beasley and Dan Paul, Miami, for the Friends of the Everglades, as amicus curiae.

Before NESBITT, BASKIN and GERSTEN, JJ.


GERSTEN, Judge.

Amid the turmoil attendant to living in an urban environment, on an island off an island, called Key Biscayne, there exists a sylvan spot of tranquility — Crandon Park. Key Biscayne, which is actually a barrier island protecting Biscayne Bay from the Atlantic Ocean, was originally owned by a Dade County pioneer family surnamed Matheson. In 1940, the Mathesons gave the people of Dade County, Florida, access to and enjoyment of that portion of...

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