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236 So. 2d 150

Docket No. 70-203.

Bryant v. Small

Willie BRYANT, Appellant, v. Evans SMALL, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida · decided 1970-06-09

Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 1989

11 state decisions

Relies on 114 So. 2d 645 - Alepgo Corporation v. Pozin · 156 So. 2d 546 - Dean v. Gold Coast Theatres, Inc. · In Re Knight's Estate

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Decided 1970-06-09

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¶1Alfred D. Bieley, Miami, for appellant.

¶2August, Nimkoff & Gladstone, Miami, for appellee.

¶3Before PEARSON, C.J., and CHARLES CARROLL and BARKDULL, JJ.

¶4PER CURIAM.

¶5Appellant seeks review of an adverse summary judgment dismissing a complaint seeking rescission of a deed, allegedly executed as a result of fraud and undue influence practiced by the appellee upon the grantor. We reverse.

¶6Ordinarily, fraud and undue influence cases are not the proper subject of summary judgment. As to fraud, see: Alepgo Corporation v. Pozin, Fla.App. 1959, 114 So.2d 645; Dean v. Gold Coast Theatres, Inc. Fla.App. 1963, 156 So.2d 546. *151 As to undue influence, see: In Re Knight's Estate, Fla.App. 1959, 108 So.2d 629. This is not to say that there may not be unusual circumstances which will permit a summary judgment in a fraud or undue influence case, but the record in the instant appeal does not present such a unique situation and the plaintiff in the trial court should have been entitled to a full evidentiary hearing.

¶7Reversed and remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent herewith.

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