LAUXMONT FARMS, INC. v. ZENTNER

No. 87-3.

514 So.2d 82 (1987)

LAUXMONT FARMS, INC., and Lauxmont Bloodstock, Inc., Appellants, v. Walter W. ZENTNER, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.

October 29, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert B. White, Jr., of White & May, Orlando, for appellants.

Bruce B. Blackwell of King & Blackwell, P.A., Orlando, for appellee.


DAUKSCH, Judge.

This is an appeal from a default judgment awarding unliquidated damages without trial. Although a default judgment can be entered to establish liability, a trial with proper notice is necessary to establish unliquidated damages. Bowman v. Kingsland Dev., Inc., 432 So.2d 660 (Fla. 5th DCA 1983); Fla.R.Civ.P. 1.440(c). The trial court's award of unliquidated compensatory damages by a default judgment was therefore...

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