Tampa-hillsborough County Expressway Authority ex rel. State, Department of Transportation v. Casiano-Torres

CAMPBELL, Acting Chief Judge.

In this appeal from an eminent domain judgment, appellant, State of Florida, Department of Transportation, challenges the award of business and severance damages to appellees, Marcelino Casiano-Torres, Naomi Casiano and Daniel Casiano. We determine that none of the issues raised by appellant constitute reversible error and, therefore, affirm. In doing so, we comment briefly on appellant’s argument that the trial court erred in submitting to the jury the resolution of the factual dispute as to whether appel-lees’ business had been in existence for five years as…