Tinwood, N.V. v. Figueredo

Tinwood, N.V., a co-defendant below, appeals from an order transferring a cross-claim it brought against co-defendants, Figueredo and others, to the Orange County Circuit Court. We reverse on the authority of the rule established in Becker, Poliakoff & Streitfeld v. Sachs, 404 So.2d 1127 (Fla. 3d DCA 1981); Zuckerman-Vernon Corp. v. Zelikoff, 303 So.2d 391 (Fla. 3d DCA 1974); and McCue v. Lane, 228 So.2d 101 (Fla. 3d DCA 1969), that a trial court simply lacks the authority, whether on grounds of convenience or otherwise, to excise and transfer only a portion of a pending action to another…