M & R INVESTMENTS, CO. INC. v. HACKER

No. 86-1950.

511 So.2d 1099 (1987)

M & R INVESTMENTS, CO., INC., Appellant, v. Stephen J. HACKER, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

September 3, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph C. Jacobs and Hillary C. Ervin, of Ervin, Varn, Jacobs, Odom & Kitchen, Tallahassee, for appellant.

Robert Dyer and Warren L. Franz, of Duckworth, Allen & Dyer, P.A., Orlando, for appellee.


ORFINGER, Judge.

The principal question raised here is to what extent may the trial court refuse enforcement of a valid judgment of a sister state because the judgment enforces a gambling debt, valid where rendered, but contrary to the public policy of this state. The trial court denied enforcement. We reverse.

There is no disagreement between the parties as to the nature of the debt underlying the judgment. The appellant sued Hacker to collect for credit...

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