City of Miami v. Watkins

The appellees were plaintiffs below, having filed this law suit as a class action. In the trial court, they alleged that the city of Miami acted illegally when it deducted from their retirement funds certain monies representing workmen’s compensation payments that had been made to the appellees prior to their retirement. The trial Court granted a partial summary judgment as to the issue of liability, basing its decision upon City of Miami v. City of Herndon, Fla.App. 1968, 209 So.2d 487.

Having examined the germane facts of the instant case, we hereby hold that the trial judge was eminently…