WAITE v. SUMMIT LEASING & CAPITAL INTERN. CORP.

No. 83-1661.

441 So.2d 185 (1983)

Barry WAITE and Fox & Co., Appellants, v. SUMMIT LEASING & CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, a Corporation, and Wilbert Harold McCauley, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

November 23, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eric B. Meyers, P.A., Barbara E. Vicevich, P.A., and Maxine M. Long of Shutts & Bowen, Miami, and Parker, Chaplin, Flattau & Klimpl, New York City, of counsel, for appellants.

Peter J. Winders and James A. Gresser of Carlton, Fields, Ward, Emmanuel, Smith & Cutler, P.A., Tampa, for appellee, Summit.


BERANEK, Judge.

The defendants appeal a nonfinal order denying their motion to dismiss based on forum non conveniens. We affirm.

The appellants are a multistate accounting firm and various partners. The firm's headquarters are in Denver, Colorado, yet it has an office in Broward County, Florida, and one of the firm's partners lives there. The only issue raised on appeal is whether the trial court abused its discretion in denying the defendant's motion to dismiss...

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