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Guion T. DeLOACH and Gertrude DeLoach, his wife, Appellants, v. THREE BAYS PROPERTIES #2, INC., and Gables Estates Club, Inc., Appellees.
    No. 67-262.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida. Third District.
    Dec. 27, 1967.
    Guión T. DeLoach, Leonard G. McNeil, Miami, for appellants.
    Mershon, Sawyer, Johnston, Dunwody & Cole and Robert G. Lilly, Jr., Miami, for Three Bays.
    Walton, Lantaff, Schroeder, Carson & Wahl and Aubrey V. Kendall, Miami, for Gables Estates.
    Before PEARSON, BARKDULL and HENDRY, JJ.
   PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal by the plaintiffs in the trial court, seeking a reversal of an adverse order dismissing their complaint for declaratory relief.

We affirm.

The record on appeal, viewed in a light most favorable to the appellants, fails to demonstrate that they were entitled to a declaration of rights at the time of the entry of the order here under review. Bryant v. Gary, Fla.1954, 70 So.2d 581; Colby, v. Colby, Fla.App.1960, 120 So.2d 797; Grable v. Hillsborough County Port Authority, Fla.App.1961, 132 So.2d 423. The most that a declaration could have done would have been to render an advisory opinion. Colby v. Colby, supra; Ashe v. City of Boca Raton, Fla.App.1961, 133 So.2d 122; Village of Virginia Gardens v. City of Miami Springs, Fla.App.1965, 171 So.2d 199. There was no- present existing controversy between the parties at the time the cause was dismissed. Colby v. Colby, supra; Grable v. Hillsborough County Port Authority, supra; Perry v. Genung, Fla. App.1964, 163 So.2d 54.

Therefore, the action of the chancellor be and the same is hereby affirmed.

Affirmed.