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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Mercedes Maria CALLE, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Jorge O. Paiz, on behalf of the Estate, and Patri Paiz, as surviving daughter of Jorge O. Paiz, and Jorge Luis Paiz, as surviving son of Jorge O. Paiz, Appellants, v. METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY, Appellee.
    No. 86-1837.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    July 7, 1987.
    Rehearing Denied Sept. 9, 1987.
    
      Miller & Selig, Daniels & Hicks and Bambi G. Blum, Miami, for appellants.
    Robert A. Ginsberg, Co. Atty., and James J. Allen, Asst. Co. Atty., for appel-lee.
    Before HUBBART, DANIEL S. PEARSON and FERGUSON, JJ.
   PER CURIAM.

We reverse the order dismissing a complaint with prejudice for failure to state a cause of action. It cannot be said that the pleadings are so inconsistent with the attached exhibits as to neutralize each other. See Harry Pepper & Assocs. v. Lasseter, 247 So.2d 736 (Fla. 3d DCA), cert. denied, 252 So.2d 797 (Fla.1971). The sufficiency of the evidence which the plaintiff is likely to produce may not be considered on a motion to dismiss. N.E. at West Palm Beach, Inc. v. Horowitz, 471 So.2d 570 (Fla. 3d DCA 1985).

Reversed and remanded.

HUBBART and FERGUSON, JJ., concur.

PEARSON, DANIEL S., Judge,

concurring specially.

By reversing the trial court’s order dismissing Metropolitan Dade County as a defendant in this suit, we are necessarily rejecting the County’s argument that it could transfer its responsibility to maintain the roadway in question to the City of Hialeah Gardens without even notifying the City of the transfer, much less, without first agreeing with the City on a schedule for the orderly transfer of responsibilities, as the plaintiffs correctly contend is required by Section 335.04(3), Florida Statutes (1981). If such an agreement or notice were legally unnecessary, then we would have found unavailing the plaintiffs’ allegations concerning the County’s responsibility for the allegedly defective roadway and would have found, therefore, the complaint against the County properly dismissed as failing to state a cause of action. 
      
      . The critical allegations are found in Count III of plaintiffs’ second amended complaint.
      "39. That DADE COUNTY prior to May 1982 accepted THE STATE OF FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION functional roadway classification that said Northwest 97th Avenue was within the County road system.
      "40. That DADE COUNTY, by resolution, purportedly deleted said roadway from its county road system pursuant to Resolution #R80982 (see Exhibit ‘A’) and purportedly transferred all representations for said roadway to THE CITY OF HIALEAH GARDENS.
      “41. That DADE COUNTY never notified the CITY OF HIALEAH GARDENS, in any manner, of the purported deletion of said roadway from the DADE COUNTY road system and the alleged subsequent transfer of said roadway to the authority of the CITY OF HIALEAH GARDENS.
      "42. That because of the failure of DADE COUNTY to notify the CITY OF HIALEAH GARDENS of said transfer, the CITY OF HIALEAH GARDENS did not know of the transfer and therefore did not maintain the roadway in question and in fact, the transfer never became effective.”