ATLANTIC ASSOCIATES LTD. v. BIRKEN

No. 92-1470.

610 So.2d 732 (1992)

ATLANTIC ASSOCIATES LTD., Atlantic-Maritime Services Inc., and H. Joel Rahn, Petitioners, v. The Hon. Arthur M. BIRKEN, Circuit Judge for the Circuit Court of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit in and for Broward County, Florida, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

December 30, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patricia A. Burton and Robert D. McIntosh of Fleming, O'Bryan & Fleming, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for petitioners.

J. Cameron Story, III and John D. Mullin of Gunster, Yoakley & Stewart, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for California Federal Bank, real party in interest.


PER CURIAM.

The petition for a writ of prohibition is hereby denied.

ANSTEAD and LETTS, JJ., concur.

FARMER, J., dissents with opinion.

FARMER, Judge, dissenting.

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