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

Michael McCRARY, Appellant, v. Ken or Pat McCRARY and Maria G. McCrary, a/k/a Maria G. McCrary Caponey, Appellees. Maria G. McCRARY, a/k/a Maria G. McCrary Caponey, Appellant, v. Ken or Pat McCRARY and Michael McCrary, Appellees.
    Nos. 78-2736, 79-1191.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
    March 25, 1981.
    Rehearing Denied May 7, 1981.
    
      Harry G. Carratt of Morgan, Carratt & O’Connor, P. A., Fort Lauderdale, for Michael McCrary.
    Thomas B. Duff of Duff & Brown and Jeanne Heyward, Miami, for Maria G. McCrary.
   PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal from a final judgment awarding the appellee, Maria G. McCrary, a judgment in the amount of $84,696.54 against the appellant, Michael McCrary, on her third party claim for indemnification. The court received conflicting evidence from each of the parties as to the circumstances giving rise to Mrs. McCrary’s claim for indemnification, and we believe there is sufficient evidence in the record to sustain the trial court’s judgment in Mrs. McCrary’s favor. However, we do conclude that the trial court erred as to the amount of the award. Mrs. McCrary sought to be indemnified in the amount of $63,395.00 in her pleadings and the proof at trial did not support an award for the higher amount.

Accordingly, the judgment against Michael McCrary is affirmed but the cause is remanded with instructions that judgment be reduced to $63,395.00.

ANSTEAD and HURLEY, JJ., concur.

MOORE, J., dissents with opinion.

MOORE, Judge,

dissenting:

I respectfully dissent as I do not feel that either the proof or the pleadings support a legal theory of indemnification. Accordingly, I would reverse the judgment in its entirety.