GRAHAM JR.
v.
FLAMINGO WAY ENTERPRISES

Fla. 3d DCA | 2018-12-05
Nos. 17-1753 & 17-2505
260 So. 3d 476 Florida District Court of Appeal, Third District (2018)

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Holding

Tate and Stoppa lacked standing to challenge the final judgment, but Graham was entitled to an evidentiary hearing on his Rule 1.540(b)(3) motion alleging fraud.


Headnotes

[1] A party challenging a final judgment on grounds other than standing must be afforded an evidentiary hearing on a Rule 1.540(b)(3) motion alleging fraud before the trial c…

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Facts & Procedural History

The trial court entered a final judgment on September 15, 2016, authorizing a statutory trustee to execute documents transferring property from a diss…

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Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

In these consolidated appeals, appellants Stanley G. Tate and Anamarie

Kelly Stoppa (case number 3D17-1753) and appellant Thomas Graham (case number 3D17-2505) each appeal separate orders of the trial court denying their respective motions seeking to vacate a September 15, 2016 final judgment entered by the trial court. This final judgment authorized a statutory trustee of a dissolved corporation to execute documents associated with the transfer of property from the dissolved corporation to appellee Flamingo Way Enterprises, LLC.

We affirm the order in case number 3D17-1753 because the trial court correctly concluded that appellants Tate and Stoppa lacked standing to challenge the final judgment. We reverse the order as to appellant Graham, however, and remand to the trial court to conduct an evidentiary hearing on Graham’s September

14, 2017 rule 1.540(b)(3) motion and appellee’s response in opposition to same.

Rusniaczek v. Tableau Fine Art Grp., Inc., 139 So. 3d 355, 337 (Fla. 3d DCA

2014).1

Affirmed in part; reversed in part and remanded.

Footnotes
1 We express no opinion as to the merits of Graham’s claim that the September 15, 2016 final judgment was the result of fraud, nor do we express an opinion regarding any of appellee’s defenses asserted to Graham’s claim.

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