FRANCHI v. SHAPIRO

No. 94-1548.

650 So.2d 161 (1995)

Domenic A. FRANCHI, Appellant, v. Myron SHAPIRO and Jeffrey B. Shapiro d/b/a Herzfeld & Rubin, and Carolyn Pickard, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

February 8, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew Barnard, Coral Gables, Michael A. Lipsky, Miami, for appellant.

Herzfeld & Rubin and David I. Weiss, Miami, for appellees.

Before COPE, LEVY and GODERICH, JJ.


LEVY, Judge.

A defendant appeals from a final judgment entered subsequent to a default, which had been ordered as a discovery sanction. We reverse because the trial court erred in failing to conduct an evidentiary hearing.

The appellees are attorneys who filed suit in Dade Circuit Court against their former client, appellant Domenic Franchi, for unpaid legal fees. Franchi is in his early seventies, and lives in Sanibel, which is near Ft. Myers in Lee County...

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