BARRERO v. OCEAN BANK

No. 98-141.

729 So.2d 412 (1999)

Rolando BARRERO, Appellant, v. OCEAN BANK, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied May 5, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tew Cardenas Rebak Kellog Lehman DeMaria & Tague and Humberto H. Ocariz, Miami, for appellant.

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

Before COPE, GREEN, and FLETCHER, JJ.


GREEN, J.

This is an appeal from an order awarding trial and appellate attorney's fees and costs pursuant to the offer of judgment statute, section 768.79, Florida Statutes (1995). We affirm the appellate attorney's fees award but reverse the trial attorney's fees and cost award.

In May 1995, appellant Rolando Barrero, the plaintiff below, filed suit against appellee Ocean Bank (or "the bank"), for the bank's alleged failure to sell him a parcel of real property...

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