PETERSON v. CROWN DIVERSIFIED INDUSTRIES

No. 81-1725.

429 So.2d 713 (1983)

Frank A. PETERSON, Eleanor R. Peterson, Robert A. Motzer, Louise B. Motzer, Roy Jones, Elsie J. Jones, John F. McCarry, Elizabeth A. McCarry, James B. Watt, Marion I. Watt, and Tekla Gunther, Appellants, v. CROWN DIVERSIFIED INDUSTRIES, Corp., Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied May 3, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Ross Shulmister, and Harry G. Carratt of Morgan, Carratt and O'Connor, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellants.

Bruno L. DiGiulian of DiGiulian, Spellacy & Di Chiara, and James G. Kincaid, Fort Lauderdale, for appellee.

John T. Allen, Jr., of John T. Allen, Jr., P.A., St. Petersburg, for Federation of Mobile Home Owners of Florida, Inc., amicus curiae in support of appellants.

Ronald A. Labasky and Jack M. Skelding, Jr., of Madigan, Parker, Gatlin, Swedmark & Skelding, Tallahassee, for Florida Manufactured Housing Ass'n, Inc., amicus curiae in support of appellee.

Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Joanna R. Martin, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, amicus curiae on behalf of the State of Fla.


DELL, Judge.

The class plaintiffs, tenants of the Deerfield Beach Mobile Home Park, appeal from a final summary judgment in favor of the defendant Park owner, a corporation, declaring a rule permitting it to evict any tenant without cause on 12 months notice to be valid and enforceable.

In Deerfield Beach Mobile Home Park the tenants place their individually owned mobile homes upon rented or leased lots. Most of the appellants are long time residents. In 1979...

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