LEE COUNTY v. PIERPONT

No. 95-04657.

693 So.2d 994 (1997)

LEE COUNTY, a political subdivision of the State of Florida, Appellant, v. Peter F. PIERPONT and Mary J. Pierpont, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

Rehearing Denied March 13, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James G. Yaeger, Lee County Attorney, and John J. Renner, Assistant County Attorney, Fort Myers, for Appellant.

William M. Powell of William M. Powell, P.A., Cape Coral, for Appellees.


CAMPBELL, Acting Chief Judge.

Appellant, Lee County, challenges the amount of attorney's fees awarded appellees, Peter F. Pierpont and Mary J. Pierpont, in an eminent domain action. We reverse and remand for a recalculation of the attorney's fees to be awarded.

The principal issue in this appeal involves the application of section 73.092, Florida Statutes (Supp.1994), to the circumstances of this case. By its terms, section 73.092, as amended in 1994, applies...

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