Evans v. Parker, No. AR-304
| Court | Florida District Court of Appeals |
| Writing for the Court | ZEHMER; MILLS; SHIVERS; SHIVERS |
| Citation | 440 So.2d 640 |
| Docket Number | No. AR-304 |
| Decision Date | 16 November 1983 |
| Parties | Leila J. EVANS, Guardian of the person and property of Virginia Searcy Barr, an incompetent, Appellant, v. Howard A. PARKER, a/k/a Howard A. Parker, Sr., Appellee. |
Page 640
Virginia Searcy Barr, an incompetent, Appellant,
v.
Howard A. PARKER, a/k/a Howard A. Parker, Sr., Appellee.
First District.
Michael Wm. Mead, Fort Walton Beach, for appellant.
Page 641
Richard H. Powell, of Estergren, Fortune, Anchors & Powell, Fort Walton Beach, for appellee.
ZEHMER, Judge.
The issue in this case is whether the trial court erred in dismissing with prejudice Count I of appellant's third amended counterclaim. We reverse.
In his motion to dismiss, appellee (Parker) contended that appellant's (Barr's) counterclaim was barred by the statute of limitations and the statute of frauds. Both are affirmative defenses which cannot properly be raised by a motion to dismiss unless the complaint affirmatively and clearly shows the conclusive applicability of such defense to bar the action. Rule 1.110(d), Florida Rules of Civil Procedure; e.g., Jackson Grain Co. v. Kemp, 177 So.2d 513 (Fla. 2d DCA 1965); Glass v. Armstrong, 330 So.2d 57 (Fla. 1st DCA 1976); 40 Fla.Jur.2d, Pleadings, §§ 171, 172. For this reason, we must analyze Barr's pleadings, construing the allegations most favorably to her position, to see if these defenses so clearly appear on the face of the counterclaim.
In the original complaint that commenced this action, Parker alleged that Barr had breached an oral contract made by them on May 1, 1974, concerning the conveyance of certain jointly owned property to one Clary to satisfy a debt owed by Barr to Clary. The complaint further alleged that Barr agreed to obtain an appraisal of the property and to pay the value of Parker's proportional interest to him, but that Barr failed to do so. Thus, Parker sought damages for this amount.
In her answer, Barr denied the correctness of Parker's allegations concerning the terms of their oral agreement. Construing Barr's allegations most favorably for her, as we must, she alleged in her affirmative defense and counterclaim that at the time of the alleged transaction Parker was indebted to her for $50,000 attorney's fees for services performed by her for Parker through the year 1972 and, further, that Parker's execution of the deed and conveyance of the property pursuant to that oral agreement was in partial payment of this indebtedness. Thus, Barr contends, under the oral agreement of May 1, 1974, Parker was paying a debt he acknowledged owing to her and that he continues to owe her the remaining balance of that debt.
On this appeal, Parker contends that Barr's cause of action asserted in the counterclaim accrued in 1972, more than four years before this action to...
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Collier v. Brooks, No. 92-642
...of an "exception to this exception" for actions at law as opposed to equity was error. He relies on Evans v. Parker, 440 So.2d 640 (Fla. 1st DCA 1983), an action for damages in which this court held that "it is axiomatic that partial performance of an oral contract removes su......
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DISTRICT 65 v. Prudential Securities, Civil Action No. 1:94-cv-3224.
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