FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT CO. v. AMERICAN LTD.

No. 86-1464.

511 So.2d 1103 (1987)

FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY, Appellant, v. AMERICAN LIMITED CORPORATION, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

September 3, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry R. Davidson and John W. Little, III, of Steel, Hector & Davis, Miami, for appellant.

William L. Coalson of Greene, Greene & Coalson, P.A., Jacksonville, for appellee.


COBB, Judge.

Florida Power and Light Company (FPL) filed a condemnation proceeding seeking a 300-foot wide easement across land in Putnam County owned by American Limited Corp. American counterclaimed for specific performance, asserting that FPL had orally contracted to buy the land in question for $150,000. FPL answered the counterclaim and raised the statute of frauds1 as an affirmative defense. The specific performance claim was severed...

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