Garden Suburbs Golf & Country Club, Inc. v. Murrell

The suit, instituted by the landlord, appellee, against the tenant, appellant, was to collect the rents due under the terms of a lease on a hotel in Miami Beach, Florida.

The claim, based upon a declaratory judgment of the Circuit Court of Dade County, Florida, Cause No. 87,418-C, hereinafter called the “Hunt decree”, 1 was that, on the basis of the principles determined in that cause, plaintiff was entitled to judgment in the sum of $461,250.

The defendant, in a 225 page answer, including exhibits, recited fully the history of the various suits in which it had been involved with the landlord,…