Melfi Construction, Inc. v. Coastal Theaters, Inc.

This is an appeal from a final judgment of the Circuit Court of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit in and for Broward County, Florida. The final judgment was entered in favor of the defendant on its counterclaim. There was no evidentiary basis to support the final judgment which was an apparent attempt to enforce what the appellee here, defendant below, characterizes as a stipulation for settlement. In our opinion, the so-called stipulation provided no evidentiary or other basis for *342the final judgment for several reasons. In the first place, it appears that the stipulated method for settling…