Platt v. Mannheimer

ODOM, ARCHIE M., Associate Judge

(dissenting).

This is a Dade County lease controversy involving the following factual background:

Appellant, lessee, and appellee, lessor, are assignees of a 99 year lease of certain Miami Beach property on which there is now located a hotel but was vacant at the time of the execution of the lease. By the terms of the lease dated April 10, 1951, the lessee agreed to construct a hotel and furnish same, pay rent, taxes, mortgage payment and insurance and do all other things that a lessee agrees to do in a typical 35 page Miami Beach hotel lease but which are of no…