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Contractor, under contract for County, demolished a condemned building. The problem was, the County did not properly notify the Owner of the County's intent to demolish the building. Owner sued the County and the Contractor for trespass. The trial court determined that the County and the Contractor were liable under the theory of inverse condemnation, which was raised late in the trial court proceedings.
The County and the Contractor appealed, and the appellate court ruled that the inverse condemnation claim should have been raised in the beginning of the proceedings. It also ruled that the Contractor's liability depends on whether it acted within the scope of its power as the County's agent.
Moral: Pick yourself up, brush yourself off, start all over again. C.E. Huffman Trucking Co. v. Red Cedar Corp., 723 So.2d 296 (Fla. 2DCA 1998). |
