Cutler v. Harrison

Ronald Cutler appeals an order dismissing his lawsuit collaterally attacking a Tennessee judgment which has been domesticated in Florida. We affirm.

In 1997 there was litigation between these parties in which appellees Shelton Harrison and Shelton Harrison Chevrolet, Inc. (“Harrison”) sought to domesticate a Tennessee money judgment against appellant Ronald Cutler. Cutler opposed that relief on procedural and substantive grounds. The court entered an order that the judgment be domesticated, thereby necessarily overruling Cutler’s defenses.

In 1999 Cutler filed an action for declaratory…