BELLA ISLA CONST. v. TRUST MORTG. CORP.

No. 76-873.

347 So.2d 649 (1977)

BELLA ISLA CONSTRUCTION CORPORATION, a Puerto Rico Corporation, Appellant, v. TRUST MORTGAGE CORPORATION, a Puerto Rico Corporation, and First Chicago Corporation, a Delaware Corporation, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied July 27, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Turner, Hendrick, Guilford, Goldstein & McDonald and S. Alan Stanley, Coral Gables, for appellant.

Mahoney, Hadlow & Adams and John K. Aurell, Mershon, Sawyer, Johnston, Dunwody & Cole and H. Michael Madsen, Miami, for appellees.

Before HAVERFIELD and HUBBART, JJ., and CHARLES CARROLL (Ret.), Associate Judge.


PER CURIAM.

In the action filed by Bella Isla Construction Corporation against Trust Mortgage Corporation and First Chicago Corporation, the plaintiff sought a judgment declaring a certain loan, made to it by Trust Mortgage Corporation, a Puerto Rico corporation, to be usurious under Florida law, and that the making of the loan in Puerto Rico was a device to evade the Florida usury law; and the complaint sought affirmative relief predicated thereon. On motions of...

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