LaROCHE INC. v. BARNETT BANK OF SO. FLA.

No. 94-0212.

661 So.2d 855 (1995)

R.L. LaROCHE, INC., a Florida Corporation; and Ronald L. LaRoche, Appellants, v. BARNETT BANK OF SOUTH FLORIDA, N.A.; Robert J. Grimmig, Jr.; Michael Sears; David L. Peterson; Ned R. Nashban; and Nancy Berz Colman, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing, Rehearing, and Certification of Question Denied November 9, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marjorie Gadarian Graham of Marjorie Gadarian Graham, P.A., Palm Beach Gardens and Robert E. Geisler of Peterson, Bernard, Vandenberg, Fei & Martin, West Palm Beach, for appellants.

Nancy W. Gregoire and Mary F. April of Ruden, Barnett, McCloskey, Smith, Schuster & Russell, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellees Barnett Bank of South Florida, N.A., Grimmig and Sears.

Alvin B. Davis, Lazaro Fernandez, Jr., and Eduardo I. Sanchez of Steel Hector & Davis, Miami, for appellees Peterson, Nashban and Colman.


Rehearing, Rehearing En Banc, and Certification of Question Denied November 9, 1995.

FARMER, Judge.

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