PALM BEACH COUNTY v. BOCA DEVELOPMENT

No. 85-101.

485 So.2d 449 (1986)

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Appellant, v. BOCA DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATES, LTD., Holiday City Civic Association, Inc., and Boca Grande Property Owners Association, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing and Certification Denied April 7, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Schoech, Co. Atty., and Sandra Sprague, Asst. Co. Atty., West Palm Beach, and Fred W. Mattlin and Gloria O. North, of Siemon, Larsen & Mattlin, Boca Raton, for appellant.

Marjorie Gadarian Graham and Paul C. Wolfe, of Jones & Foster, P.A., West Palm Beach, for appellees.


HURLEY, Judge.

The question presented is whether the trial court exceeded its jurisdiction when, acting on a matter for which the appellate court had relinquished jurisdiction for a limited purpose, the trial court vacated a four-year-old judgment. We reverse.

The facts are complicated, but nonetheless necessary to understand the present appeal. Boca Development Associates, Ltd. (Boca Development) purchased a forty-one acre parcel of land in Palm Beach County...

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