Case ID: so2d_486/html/0034-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Thomas PARHAM, Jr., d/b/a Allied Screen Printing, Appellant, v. Jack PRICE, Sam Price, Florence Evans and Barry Zisser, Co. Partners, d/b/a Z.E.P. Properties, a partnership, Appellees.
    No. BG-179.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
    April 1, 1986.
    Rehearing Denied April 1, 1986.
    Edward P. Jackson, of Jackson & Jackson, Jacksonville, for appellant.
    Ned I. Price, Jacksonville, for appellees.
   ON MOTION FOR REHEARING

BARFIELD, Judge.

By affirmance of the trial court, we hold that when a prevailing party has properly pled entitlement to attorney fees pursuant to the terms of a contract, the proof of such fees may be presented for the first time after final judgment pursuant to a motion for attorney’s fees. Cheek v. McGowan Electric Supply, Co., 483 So.2d 1373 (Fla. 1st DCA 1985).

We certify this holding to the Florida Supreme Court as presenting a question of great public importance.

SHIVERS and JOANOS, JJ., concur.