MATTHEWS v. DIVISION OF ADMIN. DOT.

No. 73-599.

324 So.2d 664 (1975)

Catherine MATTHEWS, Appellant, v. DIVISION OF ADMINISTRATION, STATE of Florida, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied January 28, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick L. Bailey, Sullivan, Cochran, Ranaghan & Bailey, Pompano Beach, for appellant.

Geoffrey B. Dobson, Gen. Counsel, and Barbara Ann Dell McPherson and Winifred S. Smallwood, Tallahassee, for appellee-Dept. of Transp.


OWEN, Judge.

The principal issue in this eminent domain case is whether the measure of damages recoverable when an established business is totally destroyed by the taking is limited to the owner's loss of profits from the business.

Appellant, defendant below, owned a laundromat business which, she alleged, had been totally destroyed as a result of the taking of her adjacent property for right of way purposes. At trial she produced an expert who so testified...

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