STATE, DEPT. OF HWY. SAFETY v. SALTER

No. 98-00001.

710 So.2d 1039 (1998)

STATE of Florida, DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAY SAFETY AND MOTOR VEHICLES, Petitioner, v. Franklyn A. SALTER, Respondent.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.

May 27, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rafael A. Centurion, Assistant General Counsel, Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, Miami, for Petitioner.

Harold M. Stevens of Harold A. Stevens, P.A., Fort Myers, for Respondent.


PER CURIAM.

The Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles seeks certiorari relief from an order assessing attorney's fees and costs against it. The order was entered in a certiorari proceeding before the circuit court sitting in its appellate capacity. We hold that the imposition of the fee and cost award departed from the essential requirements of law.1 Accordingly, we quash the order under review.

Franklyn A. Salter, aggrieved...

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