Cook v. Central and Southern Fla. Flood Control Dist., No. 1129
| Court | Court of Appeal of Florida (US) |
| Writing for the Court | KANNER; SHANNON, J., and STEPHENSON, GUNTER |
| Citation | 114 So.2d 691 |
| Parties | Emerson C. COOK, Incompetent, and Shirlee E. Cook, as Curator of the Estate of Emerson C. Cook, Incompetent, Appellants, v. CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN FLORIDA FLOOD CONTROL DISTRICT, a public corporation, Appellee. |
| Decision Date | 30 September 1959 |
| Docket Number | No. 1129 |
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CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN FLORIDA FLOOD CONTROL DISTRICT, a public corporation, Appellee.
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Fulton, Sullivan & Burns, West Palm Beach, for appellants.
Robert D. Tylander and Robert Grafton, West Palm Beach, for appellee.
KANNER, Acting Chief Judge.
The grounds of a motion to dismiss the amended complaint were that the complaint failed to state a cause of action, that it failed to state a basis for equitable relief, and that it sought money damages for breach of a written contract. The motion was denied and this interlocutory appeal has ensued.
Allegations of the amended complaint show in substance that the Emerson Cook Company was by sealed contract of December 12, 1949, employed as financial agent
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for the Everglades Drainage District. As regarded the company's purchase and sale of government bonds for the district, the contract specified a guarantee against loss to the district on all such bonds then belonging to or later acquired by it and guaranteed that the district would receive full interest on such bonds less one-fourth point annual amortization. A copy of the agreement was attached to the complaint as exhibit A.The Emerson Cook Company was liquidated in December, 1950; and all assets in an unknown amount were distributed to Emerson C. Cook, as sole stockholder, without provision for satisfying liabilities of the company. On January 24, 1951, Emerson C. Cook by letter, exhibit B to the complaint, resigned as an individual, proposing that the contract be terminated except that it remain in force only as to and until determination of the ultimate and respective liabilities of the parties. The resignation as conditioned was approved.
Under procedure provided for dissolution of the Everglades Drainage District by the 1949 legislature, sale of U. S. treasury bonds held by it was required. Emerson C. Cook, having been notified in January, 1954, of the contemplated sale of the bonds, by letter consented as an individual to their sale. This was done at a net loss of $30,976.86. Exhibit C of the complaint showed the computation of this net loss. Also pursuant to the 1949 legislative act, all the remaining assets of the Everglades Drainage District were transferred to Central and Southern Florida Flood Control District on April 16, 1956, including the claimed indebtedness of Emerson C. Cook, as an individual, nothing having been paid by him on the loss incurred by the sale of the bonds.
The foregoing factual situation was in essence alleged in the complaint. It was also alleged that Cook had thereby become...
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