Case ID: so2d_454/html/0067-02.html
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INVERSIONES BRINDISI, S.A., Appellant, v. John E. O’CONNOR, Jr., Philip J. Chastain, Marion F. Sellick, T.J. Morrison, Elizabeth Morrison, Esten A. Ulmer, Benedict Harrow, and W.J. McLeod, Jr., Appellees.
    No. 84-503.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    Aug. 14, 1984.
    Rehearing Denied Sept. 12, 1984.
    
      Paul, Landy, Beiley & Harper and Barry D. Hunter, Miami, for appellant.
    Mershon, Sawyer, Johnston, Dunwody & Cole and Jeffrey R. Surlas and Richard M. Bezold, Miami, for appellees.
    Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and BARK-DULL and JORGENSON, JJ.
   PER CURIAM.

Affirmed on the authority of the

universal [rule] that where one makes a payment of any sum under a claim of right with knowledge of the facts such a payment is voluntary and cannot be recovered. Blumenthal v. United States, D.C.S.D.Cal. 1925, 4 F.2d 808; Deppe v. Lufkin, 1 Cir., 1940, 116 F.2d 483; 40 Am.Jur., Payment, § 155, citing many cases.

City of Miami v. Keton, 115 So.2d 547, 551 (Fla.1959); see 39 Fla.Jur.2d Payment and Tender § 42 (1982), and cases and authorities cited.