EMERALD EQUITIES, INC. v. HUTTON

No. 77-1443.

357 So.2d 1071 (1978)

EMERALD EQUITIES, INC., Appellant, v. Billie J. HUTTON, Betty J. Murrell, Dorathea J. Chisholm, Carolyn J. Blood, Robert R. Bugbee, As Administrator of Estate of Martha Sue J. Bugbee, and Polk County, a Political Subdivision, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

April 26, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Hardin Peterson, Jr., of Peterson, Myers, Curtis, Craig & Crews, Lakeland, for appellant.

Thomas C. Floyd, of Wheeler, Traviss & Floyd, P.A., Winter Haven, for appellees Hutton, Murrell, Chisholm, Blood and Bugbee.

Monte J. Tillis, Jr., Asst. County Atty., Bartow, for appellee Polk County.


GRIMES, Acting Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a final summary judgment determining the appellees to be the fee simple owners of the entire right of way of an abandoned county road. We affirm.

In 1963 the appellees' predecessor in interest, Janssen Dairy, Inc., conveyed the west fifty feet of its land to Polk County for no compensation. The deed contained no reservation or reverter, but it is undisputed that the land was conveyed to enable the county to...

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