RAYMOND JAMES & ASSOC. INC. v. SMITH

No. 93-01311.

632 So.2d 715 (1994)

RAYMOND JAMES & ASSOCIATES, INC., Appellant, v. Raymond W. SMITH and Helen L. Smith, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

March 4, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Guy M. Burns and Rebecca A. Henson, Johnson, Blakely, Pope, Bokor, Ruppel & Burns, Tampa, for appellant.

Kalju Nekvasil, Goodman & Nekvasil, Safety Harbor, for appellees.


FULMER, Judge.

The prevailing party in an arbitration proceeding appeals the trial court's ruling that any award of attorney's fees should be decided by the arbitrator, not the court.

This issue was addressed recently in Lee v. Smith, Barney, Harris Upham & Co., 626 So.2d 969 (Fla. 2d DCA 1993), in which this court held that the determination of attorney's fees in arbitration was controlled by Florida law and...

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