Lyons v. Capi
District Court of Appeal of Florida
1Opinion of the Court
ANDREWS, Judge.
The plaintiff, Robert S. Lyons, a practicing attorney in Fort Lauderdale, appeals an order of the trial court declining to enter declaratory decree. The order also transferred the cause to the court of record because the amount of the counterclaim of the defendant, Andre S. Capi, M.D., was below the jurisdictional amount upon which an action could be brought in the circuit court.
The plaintiff represented a party in a malpractice claim against a medical doctor. In connection with the preparation of said case the defendant here was subpoenaed for discovery deposition and later…
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