# Benoit, Inc. v. District Board of Trustees of St. Johns River Community College of Florida

> District Court of Appeal of Florida · August 30, 1984 · 10 Fla. L. Weekly 387

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/7539553

## Case

- **Full name:** BENOIT, INC., a Minnesota corporation, Appellant/Cross-Appellee v. DISTRICT BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF ST. JOHNS RIVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF FLORIDA and Giffen Roofing Company of Jacksonville, a Florida corporation, Appellees/Cross-Appellants
- **Court:** District Court of Appeal of Florida
- **Decided:** August 30, 1984
- **Citations:** 10 Fla. L. Weekly 387; 463 So. 2d 1260; 1984 Fla. App. LEXIS 14930
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** On rehearing by Sharp
- **Judges:** Church, Cobb, Frank, Sharp
- **Cited by:** 6 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- noting that protecting the offeror furthers the state’s public policy favoring settlement

## Opinion text

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
SHARP, Judge.
We grant appellee’s motion for rehearing in order to clarify our previous opinion. We continue to adhere to our previous opinion in which we held that the trial court erred in its admission of certain evidence proffered by appellee.
We emphasize, however, that we reverse for a new trial on both liability and damages despite the fact that the issue of admissibility of evidence goes solely to the question of liability because “the pleadings *1262 and evidence raise issues so interrelating liability and damages that we think justice would thus be served by a new trial on both liability and damages.” Swan v. Wisdom, 386 So.2d 574, 576 (Fla. 5th DCA 1980).
MOTION FOR REHEARING GRANTED.
COBB, C.J., and FRANK D. UP-CHURCH, Jr., JJ., concur.

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