BYERS FONTAINEBLEAU TRAVEL SERVICE, INC., A FLORIDA CORPORATION, APPELLANT,
v.
FONTAINEBLEAU HOTEL, A FLORIDA CORPORATION, APPELLEE

Fla. 3d DCA | 1966-05-17
No. 65-423
Before PEARSON, CARROLL and SWANN, JJ.
186 So. 2d 527 Florida District Court of Appeal, Third District (1966) Positive Treatment
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Synopsis

Byers Fontainebleau Travel Service appealed a summary judgment granted to Fontainebleau Hotel in a breach of lease dispute. The appellate court reversed, finding genuine issues of material fact precluded summary judgment on claims of mutual breach and the validity of the lease ratification.


Holding

Summary judgment was improper because the depositions presented evidence that fell far short of eliminating or disposing of triable issues concerning mutual breach of contract and whether the lessee corporation ratified the lease by resolution or otherwise.


Key Quotes

“the evidence which the depositions presented fell far short of eliminating or disposing of triable issues in the case, relating to breach of contract with which each party charged the other and as to whether the lessee corporation by resolution or otherwise had ratified the lease made in its name prior to incorporation.”

Establishes why summary judgment was improper—the depositions did not resolve material factual disputes about mutual breach claims and lease ratification.

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Facts & Procedural History

On July 5, 1963, organizers of Byers Fontainebleau Travel Service, Inc. entered into a lease with Fontainebleau Hotel Corp. for exclusive operation of…

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Opinion of the Court
CARROLL, Judge.

CARROLL, Judge.

This is an appeal by the plaintiff below from an adverse summary judgment. Contentions on appeal are that the court erred (1) in granting summary judgment for the defendant, and (2) in entering judgment for certain costs.

On July 5, 1963, organizers of the appellant corporation Byers Fontainebleau Travel Service, Inc. entered into a lease, in the name of the corporation, with the appellee Fontainebleau Hotel Corp., granting the lessee the exclusive right to maintain and conduct a “Transportation Desk and Travel Office” in the hotel for a term of one year (which commenced November 1, 1963), with provision for extension by agreement for a longer period on the same terms. The lessee paid a consideration of $10,000 for the initial one year term.

On April 3, 1964, the hotel directed a letter to the lessee corporation advising that performance of the lessee was unsatisfactory, giving notice of intention to cancel the lease and calling for immediate surrender by lessee of its transportation desk and travel office. The lessee responded, through a letter by its attorney dated April 28, 1964, pursuant to which it removed, on the charge and ground that the hotel had breached the lease.1

On April 29, lessee filed this action against the hotel corporation for damages for breach of the lease, alleging the hotel from the outset had competed with the plaintiff in violation of its exclusive rights and otherwise had hindered plaintiff’s operation. A motion by defendant to dismiss the complaint for failure to state a cause of action was denied. The defendant answered, denying the alleged breach and averring certain facts relied on to establish breach of the lease by the lessee. Defendant moved for and obtained a summary judgment. To refute a contention made by the defendant that the lease entered into in the name of the lessee corporation on July S, 1963, was ineffective because made prior to incorporation of the lessee (on July 26, 1963), the plaintiff on petition on rehearing submitted a resolution by the corporation on July 30, 1963, purporting to show ratification of the acts of the incorporators. The rehearing petition was denied.

On consideration of the record consisting of the pleadings and depositions, and of the briefs of the parties, we are of the view it was error to hold there were no genuine issues of material fact and that the defendant was entitled to judgment as a matter of law. We agree with the argument of appellant’s attorney that the evidence which the depositions presented fell far short of eliminating or disposing of triable issues in the case, relating to breach of contract with which each party charged the other and as to whether the lessee corporation by resolution or otherwise had *529ratified the lease made in its name prior to incorporation.

Accordingly the summary judgment appealed from is reversed, and the cause is remanded for trial

Reversed and remanded.


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