Lance v. Wade

JORGENSON, Judge.

Joseph T. Lance and Cross Key Waterways, Inc., appeal from an adverse judgment entered upon a jury verdict finding them liable for compensatory and punitive damages. The central issue in this appeal presents the question of the propriety of the trial court’s submitting to the jury a class action sounding in fraud.1 For the reasons which follow, we affirm.

Relying on Osceola Groves v. Wiley, 78 So.2d 700 (Fla.1955), appellants contend that an action of this nature may not be maintained. We disagree with that contention. The rule announced in Osceola Groves was characterized as…