Prime Meat Packers, Inc. v. Olkap Realty Corp.
Prime Meat Packers, Inc. v. Olkap Realty Corp.
Opinion of the Court
Prime Meat Packers, Inc., the appellant here, was the tenant in certain premises as sub-lessee. The intervening lessee, Prime Meat Packer’s immediate landlord, abandoned the premises. Olkap Realty Corporation, the appellee here, was landlord.
On this appeal the appellant, Prime Meat Packers, urges that the money was wrongfully disbursed to the appellee and should be returned to appellant. We are unable to decide this question because we do not have the record upon which the trial court acted. See Greene v. Hoiriis, Fla.App.1958, 103 So.2d 226 and cases cited therein.
Nevertheless, we hold that inasmuch as the order appealed granted the petition of appellee and it affirmatively appears from the petition that appellee sought the money under a claim of right, the order appealed should be amended to show that the money was paid pursuant to the claimed right. The petition of the ap-pellee for disbursement of the money stated as follows:
“That the defendant PRIME MEAT .PACKERS, INC., has admitted that it has occupied and used the premises described above for the period of time alleged herein and that petitioner, therefore, is now entitled to the said funds for the use and occupancy of its premises by the said defendant.
“WHEREFORE, petitioner requests this Honorable Court to issue its Order of Withdrawal of Funds on deposit in the Registry of this Court in the above entitled action.”
The order appealed is amended to include the following sentence after the first sentence beginning “ORDERED and ADJUDGED” in said order: “This money is paid pursuant to petition of Olkap Realty Corporation, Inc. as payment for the use and occupancy of the premises involved during the period from 1 January 1962 to December 31, 1962.”
As modified, the order is affirmed.
. We find no statute authorizing this procedure.
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