Southeastern Assoc., Inc. v. First Georgia Bank, II-381
| Decision Date | 25 August 1978 |
| Docket Number | No. II-381,II-381 |
| Citation | 362 So.2d 967 |
| Parties | SOUTHEASTERN ASSOCIATES, INC., Appellant, v. FIRST GEORGIA BANK, Appellee. |
| Court | Florida District Court of Appeals |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Duval County; Sam Goodfriend, Judge.
Larry L. Bryan, Jacksonville Beach, for appellant.
George L. Hudspeth of Mahoney, Hadlow & Adams, Jacksonville, for appellee.
An appeal from a money judgment entered on a promissory note. The appellant corporation asserts that the trial court erred in declining to permit its sole stockholder, a layman, to act as attorney for the corporation and to conduct its defense. The court did not err. A corporation is not a person entitled to conduct its own defense, nor may it nominate a nonlawyer to do so. Nicholson Supply Co. v. First Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n, 184 So.2d 438 (Fla. 2d DCA 1966); Angelini v. Mobile Home Village, Inc., 310 So.2d 776 (Fla. 1st DCA 1975).
AFFIRMED.
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