FLORIDA COAST BANK OF POMPANO BEACH v. MAYES

No. 81-2272.

433 So.2d 1033 (1983)

FLORIDA COAST BANK OF POMPANO BEACH, Individually and As Trustee, Appellant, v. William McWhorter MAYES and Robert Holder Mayes, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

July 13, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth R. Mikos of Friedrich, Blackwell, Mikos & Ridley, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.

Thomas A. Groendyke of Fleming, O'Bryan & Fleming, Fort Lauderdale, for appellees.


ANSTEAD, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from an order holding appellant-trustee in civil contempt for failing to obey a final judgment which ordered it to pay accumulated trust funds to the trust's beneficiaries. The trustee argues that it stayed the judgment automatically by posting a supersedeas bond, that it is unable to comply with the judgment, and that the contempt order itself is defective because it imposes a coercive fine and because

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