STRESSCON INTERN v. RALPH MERRITT DEVELOPMENT

No. 78-532.

368 So.2d 384 (1979)

STRESSCON INTERNATIONAL, INC., a Florida Corporation, Appellant, v. RALPH MERRITT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, Leo Martin and Gloria Martin, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied March 26, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Friedman, Britton, Cohen, Kaufman, Zinkow, Benson & Schantz and William H. Benson, Miami, for appellant.

Ainslee R. Ferdie, Coral Gables, Todd, Rosinek & Blake, Miami, for appellees.

Before PEARSON, KEHOE and SCHWARTZ, JJ.


PEARSON, Judge.

The issue presented by this appeal is whether the trial court's action of dismissing a cause with prejudice after plaintiff's failure to elect between two counts of his complaint was an abuse of discretion. We hold that under the peculiar circumstances of this case, the dismissal with prejudice was an abuse of discretion.

It should first be made clear that a trial judge may properly dismiss a cause with prejudice for failure of a plaintiff...

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