Harnish v. Carbonell

This is an appeal from a final judgment granting specific performance and damages to appellees for breach of contract in an action arising out of appellant’s failure to pay rent in accordance with the terms of a lease and his refusal to reassign and retransfer the alcoholic beverage license from the State of Florida, which appellant was to hold in trust during the pendency of the lease on the bar premises to be used as a cocktail lounge, as provided for in a trust agreement entered into by the parties.

In essence the appellant’s defenses to the action at trial were that the trust agreement was…