Recanzone v. May Co., 98-0974
Decision Date | 01 July 1998 |
Docket Number | No. 98-0974,98-0974 |
Citation | 712 So.2d 474 |
Parties | 23 Fla. L. Weekly D1598 Kirk RECANZONE, Petitioner, v. The MAY COMPANY, a foreign corporation and Lord & Taylor, a foreign corporation, Respondents. |
Court | Florida District Court of Appeals |
Petition for writ of mandamus to the Circuit Court of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, Palm Beach County; James T. Carlisle, Judge; L.T. Case No. CL 96-6703AH.
Timothy L. Whalen of Daves, Whalen, McHale & Considine, West Palm Beach, for petitioner.
Rhea P. Grossman of Rhea P. Grossman, P.A., Miami, for respondents.
The petitioner seeks to compel the Palm Beach County circuit court to exercise jurisdiction over an action for damages and for injunctive relief, brought under sections 559.77 et seq., Florida Statutes ( ), and sections 501.201 et seq., Florida Statutes ( ). The circuit court transferred the case to the county court, finding that it did not have jurisdiction because it was persuaded by the arguments of the defendant that the amount in controversy did not exceed the county court's $15,000 jurisdictional amount. We grant the petition.
Because the circuit and county courts have concurrent jurisdiction over such actions when equitable relief is sought, qualified only in that, if brought in county court, such actions must fall within the $15,000 monetary jurisdictional amount, the trial court erred in refusing to exercise jurisdiction over a matter which clearly was within its jurisdiction. See Alexdex Corp. v. Nachon Enters., Inc., 641 So.2d 858 (Fla.1994); Coral Springs Tower Club II Condominium Ass'n v. Dizefalo, 667 So.2d 966 (Fla. 4th DCA 1996) ( ).
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