SOUTHEASTERN ASSOC., INC. v. FIRST GEORGIA BANK

No. II-381.

362 So.2d 967 (1978)

SOUTHEASTERN ASSOCIATES, INC., Appellant, v. FIRST GEORGIA BANK, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

Rehearing Denied October 20, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry L. Bryan, Jacksonville Beach, for appellant.

George L. Hudspeth of Mahoney, Hadlow & Adams, Jacksonville, for appellee.


SMITH, Acting Chief Judge.

An appeal from a money judgment entered on a promissory note. The appellant corporation asserts that the trial court erred in declining to permit its sole stockholder, a layman, to act as attorney for the corporation and to conduct its defense. The court did not err. A corporation is not a person entitled to conduct its own defense, nor may it nominate a nonlawyer to do so. Nicholson Supply...

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