Holiday Inns, Inc. v. Spevak

Holiday Inns, Inc. (petitioner) petitions for a writ of certiorari seeking review of an interlocutory order denying its motion to consolidate. We grant the petition and reverse.

Sam Spevak (respondent) filed suit against the petitioner seeking damages pursuant to a 99-year lease executed in 1967 whereby petitioner leased certain real property in Duval County on which it constructed and operated a hotel until 1976. At that time, petitioner assigned its lease obligation to a third party. Accompanying that assignment was an indemnity agreement. There have been several subsequent assignments, all…