CERTAIN LANDS UPON WHICH TOWN OF LAKE PLACID TAXES ARE DELINQUENT, ALBERT C. WHITMORE, M. HALLE WHITMORE, DAVID A. WHITMORE AND FAYE W. PARKINSON,

v.

TOWN OF LAKE PLACID

Citator

Cited By

• Green v. Life & Health OF Am., 704 So. 2d 1386 (Fla. 1998)
  …ch provisions and conditions as they desire. 1 Lee R. Russ, Couch on Insurance 3d, § 17:2 (1997). Therefore, within reason, parties are free to contract even though either side may get what turns out to be a “bad bargain.” Quinerly v. Dundee Corp., 159 Fla. 219, 222, 31 So. 2d 533, 534 (1947) (“[C]ourts are powerless to rewrite contracts or interfere with the freedom of contracts or substitute [their] judgment for that of parties to the contract in order to reheve one of the parties from apparent hardships…
• Beach Resort Hotel Corp. v. Wieder, 79 So. 2d 659 (Fla. 1955)
  …the freedom of contract or substitute their judgment for that of the parties thereto in order to relieve one of the parties from the apparent hardship of an improvident bargain. Savage v. Horne, 159 Fla. 301, 31 So. 2d 477; Quinerly v. Dundee Corp., 159 Fla. 219, 31 So. 2d 533; Medard v. Paulson, Fla., 37 So. 2d 902; Camichos v. Diana Stores Corp., 157 Fla. 349, 25 So. 2d 864; Pierce v. Isaac, 134 Fla. 666, 184 So. 509; Windham v. Windham, 152 Fla. 362, 11 So. 2d 797; International Ass’n of Machinists v. St…
• Bursten v. Hyman Green and Irving Green, 172 So. 2d 472 (Fla. 2d DCA 1965)
  …2d 167. Furthermore, where the language of a contract is susceptible to two constructions, the construction which “malees it fair, customary, and such as a prudent man would naturally execute * * * should be adopted.” Quinerly v. Dundee Corp., 1947, 159 Fla. 219, 31 So. 2d 533, 535. Based on these reasons we hold that giving the language used its natural and ordinary meaning, the attorneys were only empowered to discuss or confer upon the terms of &■ proposed agreement and that the contract did not clearly…

Authorities Cited

• West v. Town of Lake Placid, 97 Fla. 127 (Fla. 1929)
• Alfonso v. State, 97 Fla. 255 (Fla. 1929)
• State v. Town of Lake Placid, 140 Fla. 327 (Fla. 1939)