Fiscal Operations, Inc. v. Metropolitan Dade County

Fiscal Operations, Inc. appeals the trial court’s orders allowing third-party defendants I.T.O. Corporation and Florida Ste-vedoring, Inc. to deposit funds into an independent escrow account and dismissing with prejudice Fiscal Operations’ third-party complaints. Because the remaining parties contest entitlement to these funds, the trial court properly allowed the funds to be escrowed. We thus affirm.

Metropolitan Dade County sued Fiscal Operations and its officers alleging that the defendants were stealing and converting the County’s gantry crane revenues at the Port of Miami. On May 8,1998,…