STATE DEP. OF HIGHWAY SAFETY AND MOTOR VEHICLES v. BLATZ

No. 96-00617.

685 So.2d 1366 (1996)

STATE of Florida, DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAY SAFETY AND MOTOR VEHICLES, Appellant, v. Charles R. BLATZ, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

October 4, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Enoch J. Whitney, General Counsel, and Jill Tavlin Swartz, Assistant General Counsel, Miami, for Appellant.

No appearance for Appellee.


QUINCE, Judge.

The State Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (the Department) challenges an order of the trial court directing it to pay the fee to transfer the underlying case to Lee County, Florida. We reverse because section 47.091, Florida Statutes (1995), provides for payment of this fee by the party who initially files in an improper venue, and the appellee, Charles Blatz, initially filed the action in...

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