Barredo v. Skyfreight, Inc.

FERGUSON, Judge.

The courts are generally vested with considerable discretion in determining who shall pay the cost and expenses of receiverships. Deauville Corporation v. Blount, 160 Fla. 286, 34 So.2d 537 (1948). But, where the court had previously determined that defendant’s reprehensible conduct created the necessity for the appointment of receiver, a finding clearly supported by the record, it constituted an abuse of that discretion to tax the receiver’s expenses against the plaintiff. Jackson v. H.M. Wade Mfg. Co., 105 Fla. 560, 142 So. 228 (1932) (expenses and allowance to receiver as…