LAKE GATEWAY MOTOR INN, INC. v. MATT'S SUNSHINE, ETC.

Nos. 77-1192 and 77-1211.

361 So.2d 769 (1978)

LAKE GATEWAY MOTOR INN, INC., Associated Inns and Restaurants Company of America, Bruce W. Mylrea and William W. Perrett, Appellants, v. MATT's SUNSHINE GIFT SHOPS, INC. and Ronald E. Dowdy, Appellees. Ronald E. DOWDY, Appellant, v. MATT'S SUNSHINE GIFT SHOPS, INC., Lake Gateway Motor Inn. Inc., a Florida Corporation, Bruce M. Mylrea, Individually, Associated Inns and Restaurants Company of America, an Ohio Corporation, William W. Perrett, Individually, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied September 7, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest J. Rice and James M. Spoonhour of Lowndes, Peirsol, Drosdick & Doster, P.A., Orlando, for appellants — Lake Gateway Motor Inn, Inc., Associated Inns & Restaurants Co. of America, Bruce W. Mylrea and William W. Perrett.

John Motsinger, Jr. and Michael G. Williamson of Johnson, Motsinger, Trismen & Sharp, P.A., Orlando, for appellant — Ronald E. Dowdy.

Melvin Pearlman, Winter Park, for appellee — Matt's Sunshine Gift Shops, Inc.


LETTS, Judge.

A major motel (and the individual defendants in the court below) here appeal an adverse money judgment in favor of the former operator of its, on the premises, gift shop, the jury award predicated upon a tortious interference by the motel of a business relationship between the former operator and his successor operator. The award likewise found a tortious interference of an advantageous business relationship between the motel and the former operator...

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