METRO. DADE COUNTY v. FLOYD, PEARSON

No. 88-2462.

559 So.2d 614 (1990)

METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY, Florida, Appellant, v. FLOYD, PEARSON, RICHMAN, GREER, WEIL, ZACK & BRUMBAUGH, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied May 9, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Ginsburg, County Atty., and Robert A. Duvall, Asst. County Atty., for appellant.

Floyd, Pearson, Richman Greer, Weil, Zack & Brumbaugh, and Robert L. Floyd and Scott D. Sheftall and Sally R. Doerner, for appellee.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and BASKIN and FERGUSON, JJ.


FERGUSON, Judge.

Dade County challenges an award of attorney's fees to the appellee law firm for services rendered to a legislatively created and abolished independent agency. We affirm the trial court's determination that there was an entitlement to the fees.1

A 1972 amendment to the Home Rule Charter, approved by referendum, gave Dade County the authority to expand the City of Miami Water and Sewer Board to an agency with county...

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