Legal Opinion
Franchi v. Shapiro
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided February 8, 1995No. 94-1548PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEVY, Judge.
A defendant appeals from a final judgment entered subsequent to a default, which had been ordered as a discovery sanction. We reverse because the trial court erred in failing to conduct an evidentiary hearing.
The appellees are attorneys who filed suit in Dade Circuit Court against their former client, appellant Domenic Franchi, for unpaid legal fees. Franchi is in his early seventies, and lives in Sanibel, which is near Ft. Myers in Lee County. The appellees noticed Fran-chi for the taking of his deposition in Miami on March 16, 1994. Citing health reasons, Franchi moved for a…
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