Schultz v. Lurie

The trial court’s judgment directed the property appraiser to reassess the plaintiff’s property. A subsequent order awarded the plaintiff an attorney’s fee on the ground that the defendants’ position in the litigation was essentially non-meritorious. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

Plaintiff Lurie sued the defendants Schultz, as property appraiser, and Jasper, as tax collector, challenging the amount of the 1983 ad valorem tax assessment on the Oakhurst Gardens Apartments complex in Pinellas County. Lurie alleged that the assessment of $1,700,000 was not a just valuation and that the…