COOPERMAN v. WEST COAST TITLE COMPANY


75 So.2d 818 (1954)

Leonard W. COOPERMAN et al., Appellants, v. WEST COAST TITLE COMPANY et al., Appellees. Leonard W. COOPERMAN et al., Appellants, v. GUARANTEE ABSTRACT COMPANY et al., Appellees. Florida Association of Realtors, St. Petersburg Board of Realtors, Warren P. Hunnicutt and other individual real estate brokers, and The Florida Bar, Intervenors.

Supreme Court of Florida. En Banc.

Rehearing Denied December 8, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard W. Cooperman, Walter G. Ramseur, St. Petersburg, Hubert C. Smith, Fort Lauderdale, Unauthorized Practice Committee of The Florida Bar, Darrey Davis, President of The Florida Bar, J.A. McClure, Jr., St. Petersburg, as President of St. Petersburg Bar Ass'n, for appellants.

Harold A. Kooman and William S. Fielding (of Grazier, Fielding, Greene & Coit), St. Petersburg, for West Coast Title Co.

Baynard, Baynard & McLeod and Carroll R. Runyon, St. Petersburg, for Guarantee Abstract Co.

W.H. Poe of Maguire, Voorhis & Wells, Orlando, for intervenors-appellees.

Wm. H. Rogers, Jacksonville, amicus curiae.


THOMAS, Justice.

The original plaintiffs were members of The Florida Bar practicing law in St. Petersburg and officers of the St. Petersburg Bar Association and the original defendants were Florida corporations engaged in the business of preparing abstracts of title to real property and issuing policies of title insurance as agents of title insurance corporations. In the course of the proceedings in the chancery court, Florida Association of Realtors, St. Petersburg...

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