Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services v. Mid-Florida Growers, Inc.

ON MOTION TO REVIEW STAY ORDER

Appellant, the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, seeks review of an order of the circuit court which imposes conditions upon its ability to obtain a stay of a judgment presently under appeal. For the reasons which follow, we affirm that portion of the trial court’s order which requires immediate payment of part of the judgment to appellees, but quash that portion requiring the posting of the remainder of the judgment as an additional supersede-as bond.

The appellees are citrus growers whose nursery stock was destroyed by the Department in 1984 in an…