McCULLEY FORD, INC. v. CALVIN

No. U-452.

308 So.2d 189 (1974)

McCulley FORD, INC., a Florida Corporation, Petitioner, v. John D. CALVIN, Director of the Division of Motor Vehicles of the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles of the State of Florida, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied March 6, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald Sales, Sales & Christiansen, Palm Beach, and Joseph P. Metzger, Walton, Lantaff, Schroeder, Carson & Wahl, West Palm Beach, for petitioner.

John D. Calvin, and Charles Knott, Tallahassee, for respondent.

John B. Kent, Fred H. Kent, Kent, Sears, Durden & Kent, William R. Frazier, Jacksonville, and David R. Larrouy, Dearborn, for amicus curiae.


BOYER, Judge.

Bev Smith Ford, Inc. ("Smith") filed an application, pursuant to F.S. 320.27, for a license to engage in business as a Ford franchised motor vehicle dealer in Lake Park, Palm Beach County, Florida on March 23, 1973. Two of the three existing Ford dealers in the territory, Wayne Akers Ford, Inc. and Earl Wallace Ford, Inc., did not protest Smith's application. McCulley Ford, Inc. ("McCulley"), Petitioner here, the third existing Ford dealer, filed a written...

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