SMITH v. BELIN

Nos. AO-160, AO-171.

456 So.2d 1242 (1984)

Jim SMITH, As Attorney General of the State of Florida, and Charles M. Oberly, III, As Attorney General of Delaware, Appellants, v. J.C. BELIN, T.S. Coldewey, W.L. Thornton, William B. Mills, Alfred Dupont Dent, and the Jacksonville National Bank, As Trustee of the Alfred I. Dupont Testamentary Trust, and FEC Terminal Warehouses, Inc., a Florida Corporation, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

September 19, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John F. Corrigan of Ulmer, Murchison, Ashby, Taylor & Corrigan, Jacksonville, for appellant Delaware.

Fred H. Kent, John R. Crawford of Kent, Watts, Durden, Kent, Nichols & Mickler, Jacksonville, for appellees J.C. Belin, T.S. Coldewey, L.W. Thornton, William B. Mills, Alfred duPont Dent, and the Jacksonville Nat. Bank, as Trustees of the Alfred I. duPont Testamentary Trust.

Charles B. Evans, St. Augustine, for appellee FEC Terminal Warehouses, Inc.


JOANOS, Judge.

Appellants, Attorneys General of Florida and Delaware, separately appeal from a final judgment in which the trial court authorized a joint venture between the Alfred I. duPont Trust (Trust) and the Florida East Coast Railway (FEC). The appeals are consolidated for review. We affirm.

Pursuant to Section 737.403, Florida Statutes the trial court authorized the proposed joint venture. The trial court presumed that a conflict existed, but did not...

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