Florida District Courts of Appeal, 1984

Union Electric Construction Corp. v. Jansen Co. of Florida

Union Electric Construction Corp. v. Jansen Co. of Florida
Florida District Courts of Appeal · Decided June 6, 1984 · Hersey, Letts, Walden
450 So. 2d 919; 1984 Fla. App. LEXIS 13512 (Southern Reporter, Second Series)

Union Electric Construction Corp. v. Jansen Co. of Florida

Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

We treat this appeal as a petition for common law certiorari. Hansen v. Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc., 408 So.2d 658 (Fla. 3d DCA 1982). The order in question which granted the Motion to Compel Arbitration is quashed. The cause is remanded with instructions to conduct an evidentiary hearing after notice upon the Motion to Compel Arbitration filed by Jansen Company of Florida, Inc. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith v. Melamed, 425 So.2d 127 (Fla. 4th DCA 1982); Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith v. Falowski, 425 So.2d 129 (Fla. 4th DCA 1982).

Certiorari granted.

HERSEY and WALDEN, JJ., concur. LETTS, J., dissents with opinion.

Dissenting Opinion

LETTS, Judge,

dissenting.

Based on the pleadings and affidavits in the file, the record unequivocally stands for the proposition that the appellant was the one who requested the judge to rule on the motion to arbitrate which it now insists the judge was in error for so doing.

Moreover this case concerns a $384,100 written contract out of which the appellant here wishes to excise $6,490. The record also demonstrates to my satisfaction that this latter de minimus sum, allegedly a totally separate oral contract, is in fact part and parcel of the whole.

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