Division of Administration State Department of Transportation v. Davis

GLICKSTEIN, Judge.

This is an appeal from a Final Judgment and an Order Denying New Trial. We reverse.

*687Appellant (“DOT”) filed a Petition in eminent domain to acquire certain property including parcel 120 owned by appellees, Neal Adams, Sr. and his wife, Ora Lee Adams. The Petition included a demand for trial by a jury of twelve (12) persons. Along with the Petition, DOT filed a Declaration of Taking to proceed under the quick take provisions of Chapter 74, Florida Statutes. Both of these pleadings reflected two mailing addresses for DOT, one in Fort Lauderdale and the other in Tallahassee.…