Opinion

David v. Richman

  • 568 So. 2d 922
  • 1990 WL 160206
Court
Supreme Court of Florida
Filed
Oct 18, 1990
Status
Published
Author
Barkett
On the bench
Barkett, Ehrlich, Kogan
Cited by
41 cases
Authority
More cited than 15.3%

holding that no contract for sale of real estate existed where material terms, including the legal description of the property, were omitted

How later courts described this case

  • holding that no contract for sale of real estate existed where material terms, including the legal description of the property, were omitted
  • holding that "a party is precluded from claiming attorney’s fees under a contract which has been found to have never existed”
  • holding that a party is precluded from claiming attorneys’ fees under a contract which the court found never existed
  • financing terms in real estate transaction were essential terms of the contract for which there was no agreement, and thus, no assent and no contract was formed

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

I dissent for the same reasons expressed in my dissent in Gibson v. Courtois, 539 So.2d 459 , 461 (Fla. 1989) (Barkett, J., dissenting).

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