Case ID: so2d_645/html/1096-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Joseph BOCCHINO, Appellant, v. Cathleen Cummings FISCHER; John Fischer; Complete Inspections, Inc., a Florida corporation; John C. Merwin, Jr.; Dynasty Homes and Investments, Inc., a Florida corporation, Appellees.
    No. 93-2914.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
    Nov. 30, 1994.
    
      Dennis J. McGlothin and Anthony W. Pel-legrino, Dennis J. McGlothin, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.
    Robert Hands, Steel Hector & Davis, Miami, for Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate, Inc.
   PER CURIAM.

Reversed. It was error to deny Plaintiff leave to amend the complaint, to add a party, based on Plaintiffs deposition statement indicating the existence of facts that might support a potential defense. Rather, consideration of the motion for leave to amend should be limited to the content of the pleading and the proposed amendment.

We note that this is not a case in which the defense appeared on the face of the complaint. In reversing, we take no position on whether the proposed amendment states a cause of action.

HERSEY, STONE and KLEIN, JJ., concur.