SUMMERVILLE DEVELOPMENT, INC. v. DORTA-DUQUE

No. 3D05-1999.

941 So.2d 530 (2006)

SUMMERVILLE DEVELOPMENT, INC., & G.C. Homes, Inc., Appellants, v. Manuel DORTA-DUQUE, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

November 8, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Colson Hicks Eidson, and Joseph M. Matthews, and Enid Duany Mendoza, Coral Gables, for appellants.

Josephs Jack, and Susan S. Lerner, Miami, for appellee.

Before RAMIREZ, ROTHENBERG, and LAGOA, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

Summerville Development, Inc. and G.C. Homes, Inc. appeal the trial court's order granting a new trial in the underlying breach of contract action. We affirm, finding no abuse of discretion in light of the improper comments made before the jury during the trial proceedings.

During the course of the trial, the attorney for G.C. Homes, a plaintiff below, made a number of improper comments in the presence of the jury. She also referred during closing...

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