LEWIS v. STATE ROAD DEPARTMENT OF FLORIDA


95 So.2d 248 (1957)

H.B. LEWIS and D.M. Lewis, copartners, trading and doing business as M.G. Lewis and Sons Garage, and D.M. Lewis, as executor of the estate of M.G. Lewis, deceased, Appellants, v. The STATE ROAD DEPARTMENT OF FLORIDA et al., The Apalachicola-Northern Railroad, a Florida Corporation, and the St. Joe Paper Company, a Florida Corporation, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Florida, En Banc.

Rehearing June 5, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Claude Pepper, Tallahassee, and John M. McCants, Fort Lauderdale, for appellants.

Bryan W. Henry, Miami, for State Road Department.

Ford L. Thompson (of Meginniss, Thompson & Morrison), Tallahassee, for Apalachicola-Northern R.R. and St. Joe Paper Co.


ROWE, Associate Justice.

On November 6, 1953, the plaintiffs filed their bill of complaint in the Circuit Court for Leon County, Florida, against the defendants, alleging that plaintiffs then and since 1928 owned property adjacent to and abutting on U.S. Highway 98 (State Road 30) for a distance of about 300 feet, and is used for the operation of a business known as M.G. Lewis and Sons Garage for the sale and servicing of...

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