Case ID: so2d_971/html/0853-01.html
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Author: {"author": "WELLS, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Robert P. WHITE and Carol Chabinak, Appellants, v. David BUCKWALTER and Ethyl Buckwalter and Henry Finck, Appellees.
    No. 3D06-3157.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    Oct. 31, 2007.
    Rehearing Denied Dec. 12, 2007.
    Andrew M. Tobin, Tavernier, for appellants.
    Vernis Bowling and Scott C. Black, Isla-morada; Greenman & Manz and Franklin D. Greenman, for appellees.
    Before COPE and WELLS, JJ., and FLETCHER, Senior Judge.
   WELLS, J.

Affirmed. See Fontainebleau Hotel Corp. v. Forty-Five Twenty-Five, Inc., 114 So.2d 357, 359 (Fla. 3d DCA 1959) (stating that “it is universally held that where a structure serves a useful and beneficial purpose, it does not give rise to a cause of action ... even though it causes injury to another by cutting off light and air and interfer[es] with the view that would otherwise be available over adjoining land in its natural state, regardless of the fact that the structure may have been erected partly for spite”); see also Messett v. Cohen, 741 So.2d 619, 622 (Fla. 5th DCA 1999) (finding that “a claim of ‘obstructed view’ does not constitute a ‘legally recognizable interest’ ”); Calusa Golf, Inc. v. Carlson, 464 So.2d 1271, 1271 (Fla. 3d DCA 1985) (finding that, “even though a spiteful purpose may have partially motivated the construction of the fence,” an injunction preventing the construction was inappropriate where the fence would “serve a useful purpose by protecting the [property] from trespass and vandalism”).