Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. v. Carter
| Decision Date | 12 March 1999 |
| Docket Number | No. 97-1893.,97-1893. |
| Citation | 728 So.2d 344 |
| Parties | BROWN & WILLIAMSON TOBACCO CORPORATION, as successor by merger to The American Tobacco Company, Appellant, v. Grady CARTER and Mildred Carter, Appellees. |
| Court | Florida District Court of Appeals |
J.W. Prichard, Jr. and Robert B. Parrish of Moseley, Warren, Prichard & Parrish, Jacksonville; Thomas E. Riley and Steven L. Vollins of Chadbourne & Parke, LLP, New York, for Appellant.
Ada A. Hammond and Charles M. Johnston of Johnston & Hammond; Norwood S. Wilner and Gregory H. Maxwell of Spohrer, Wilner, Maxwell, Maciejewski & Stanford, P.A., Jacksonville, for Appellees.
The sole issue of attorney's fees in this case is now moot by virtue of this court's decision in the unconsolidated case of Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. v. Carter, 723 So.2d 833 (Fla. 1st DCA 1998). Accordingly, we reverse and remand to the trial court with instructions to vacate the judgment for attorney's fees.
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Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. v. Carter
...the trial court's award of fees based upon our earlier reversal of the entire jury verdict. See Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. v. Carter, 728 So.2d 344 (Fla. 1st DCA 1999) (Carter II). Then, the Florida Supreme Court quashed this court's original decision in its entirety and reinstated th......
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