Ford Motor Co. v. Ward

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING

We vacate the court’s earlier opinion and affirm the trial court’s partial summary judgment for the plaintiff under the lemon law.

There are a number of concerns which have occasioned this .change of heart. First, there were no meritorious reasons to *642reverse other than the jurisdictional issue raised by the defendant in its main brief. Second, we erred in basing our reversal on a lack of subject matter jurisdiction. Key Haven v. Board of Trustees of Internal Improvement, 427 So.2d 153, 157 (Fla.1982), held:

Clearly, the determination of whether a particular controversy…