CENTURY BANK OF LEE CTY. v. GILLESPY

No. 80-932.

399 So.2d 1109 (1981)

CENTURY BANK OF LEE COUNTY, etc., Appellant, v. Thurman GILLESPY, Jr., M.D., et al., Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

June 24, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Donald of Pavese, Shields, Garner, Haverfield, Kluttz & Cottrell, Cape Coral, for appellant.

Alfred E. Hawkins of Hawkins & Hawkins, Daytona Beach, for appellees.


COWART, Judge.

We hold that, regardless of whatever attributes a joint venture may have which, for other purposes, distinguish it from a traditional partnership, if a "joint venture" in fact meets the definition of a statutory partnership as set out in section 620.585, Florida Statutes (1979), it is a partnership for the purpose of acquiring, holding and conveying title to real property in the name of the joint venture (partnership) as an entity separate from its...

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