GARROTE v. OCEAN BANK

No. 97-469.

713 So.2d 1095 (1998)

Eugenio Rafael GARROTE, et al., Appellants, v. OCEAN BANK, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

July 22, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Amador & Amador and Rolando A. Amador, Miami, for appellants.

Louis K. Nicholas, II, Miami, for appellee.

Before NESBITT, JORGENSON and COPE, JJ.


JORGENSON, Judge.

Eugenio and Gladys Garrote, homeowners, appeal from a final judgment of foreclosure. We reverse.

This case presents the question of whether a dragnet clause in an open first mortgage on residential homestead property secures a later-incurred debt that arose from the parties' personal guarantees of business loans from the same lender. We hold that under these facts, it does not.1

In October, 1988, the homeowners...

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