DIVISION OF ADMINISTRATION, ETC. v. DENMARK

No. 77-987.

354 So.2d 100 (1978)

DIVISION OF ADMINISTRATION, STATE of Florida DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, Appellant, v. Richard S. DENMARK et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

January 4, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Winifred Sheridan Smallwood and H. Reynolds Sampson, Gen. Counsel, State of Florida Dept. of Transp., Tallahassee, for appellant.

Spencer B. Gilbert of Gilbert & Horowitz, P.A., Fort Pierce, for appellee, Sibyl Hayes.


LETTS, Judge.

This is an interlocutory appeal from an award of $85,000 in attorneys fees in a condemnation suit which culminated in a verdict of $349,000 plus $16,600 in interest and $27,000 in costs taxed. We affirm.

The facts are that the State, all the way through trial, would only offer $117,000 for the land taken, claiming a special enhancement to the remainder of over $500,000. The property owner's attorney, a lawyer of long standing and much experience...

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