Walker v. Fla. Gas Transmission Co.
Decision Date | 27 March 2014 |
Docket Number | No. 1D13–3271.,1D13–3271. |
Citation | 134 So.3d 571 |
Parties | Emily Chancy WALKER, Trustee of the Thomas Walker Irrevocable Trust, John Floyd Walker, T.B. Walker, Jr., T. Butler Walker, Sr., a/k/a Thomas Butler Walker, Sr., and Emily Walker, a/k/a Emily C. Walker, Appellants, v. FLORIDA GAS TRANSMISSION COMPANY, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Alan Brown Whitehouse, et al., Appellee. |
Court | Florida District Court of Appeals |
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John Beranek and J. Marshall Conrad of Ausley & McMullen, Tallahassee; Joe W. Fixel, William A. Fixel of Fixel & Willis, Tallahassee and Paula Sparkman of Bird & Sparkman, P.L., Monticello, for Appellant.
Kenneth B. Bell of Clark, Partington, Hart, Larry, Bond & Stackhouse, Pensacola; Trevor A. Thompson of Clark, Partington, Hart, Larry, Bond & Stackhouse, Tallahassee; Kurt T. Bauerle of Harris, Harris, Bauerle, Sharma, Orlando and Brian Bolves, Tampa, for Appellee.
Appellants, property owners, appeal the trial court's denial of their motion to enforce an order of taking. The court denied their motion to enforce a provision in the order of taking that required Appellee to replace, among other things, “trees, landscaping, grasses, shrubbery, [and] crops” (the tree-replacement obligation). Appellants claim the denial of the motion to enforce the tree-replacement obligation, contained within a schedule attached to the order of taking, was an order determining “the right to immediate possession of property.” They therefore assert the denial was appealable via Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.130(a)(3)(c)(ii). We disagree.
Our supreme court has “carefully created” each category of non-final order subject to interlocutory review after input and weighing various policy considerations, “such as increased appellate workload and concomitant delay in ... resolution.” Citizens Prop. Ins. Corp. v. San Perdido Ass'n, Inc., 104 So.3d 344, 348 (Fla.2012). Accordingly, the categories of non-final orders subject to interlocutory appeal are narrowly construed. Travelers Ins. Co. v. Bruns, 443 So.2d 959, 961 (Fla.1984) ().
Here, quite simply, no trees/shrubs/grasses exist. Appellee clear cut them. Thus, instead of the right to immediate possession of the property (i.e., trees), Appellants seek enforcement of a contractual right to replacement of unspecified property. They do not claim a right to possession of identifiable property as required by Rule 9.130(a)(3)(c)(ii). In addition,the trial court granted Appellants' alternative request to amend their answer below to assert claims regarding the tree-replacement obligation. The trial court's order leaves pending the replacement issue....
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