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SUNSHINE UTILITIES EQUIPMENT, INC. v. TREASURE COAST UTILITIES, INC.

No. 82-71.

421 So.2d 1096 (1982)

SUNSHINE UTILITIES EQUIPMENT, INC., Appellant, v. TREASURE COAST UTILITIES, INC., Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied December 9, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis J. Plews, Bradenton, for appellant.

J. Randolph Lipscomb of Von Arx & Lipscomb, Miami, for appellee.

HERSEY, Judge.

This is an appeal from a final judgment holding that the debt constituting the cause of action here had been merged into a judgment entered in earlier litigation.

The doctrine of merger operates to extinguish a cause of action on which a judgment is based and bars a subsequent action for the same cause. See Brinker v. Ludlow, 379 So.2d 999 (Fla. 3d DCA 1980...

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