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BRASFIELD & GORRIE GENERAL CONTRACTOR, INC., Appellant, v. SOUTHERN ACCENT NURSERY FARMS, INC., Appellee.
    No. 92-676.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fifth District.
    June 11, 1993.
    Leslie King O’Neal of McDonough, O’Neal & O’Dell, Orlando, for appellant.
    Richard H. Adams', Jr. and Jennifer S. Eden of Pleus, Adams & Spears, Orlando, for appellee.
   PER CURIAM.

Although there is much in the lower court’s eight page “Temporary Restraining Order” with which we cannot agree, we do agree that the “confirmed irrevocable letter of credit” and the related letter of November 19, 1991, will require some construction and, for that reason, the lower court did not err in preventing the appellant from drawing on the letter of credit pending trial. The lower court did, however, err in failing to require appellee to post a bond, as required by Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.610(b), to indemnify appellant in the event appellant ultimately prevails. See e.g. Longshore Lakes Joint Venture v. Mundy, 616 So.2d 1047 (Fla. 2d DCA 1993). The letter of credit is not itself adequate for this purpose. On remand, appellee shall be required to post adequate bond.

AFFIRMED in part; REVERSED in part; REMANDED.

GOSHORN, C.J., and GRIFFIN, J., concur.

DAUKSCH, J., dissents with opinion.

DAUKSCH, Judge,

dissenting.

I respectfully dissent.

This appellee obtained its injunction because, among other things, it was in extremely precarious financial condition. According to it, appellee was going to be forced out of business by appellant’s actions.

While I concur with the wording of the majority opinion that “there is much ... with which we cannot agree” in the lower court’s temporary restraining order, I disagree with requiring appellee to now post a bond.

The order on review was rendered in March 1992. It is a non-final order and the appeal of that order has caused all proceedings below to cease. This case was perfected in this court and assigned for disposition in due course and scheduled for judicial action in September, 1992. Because injunction, or a “restraining order,” is a case in equity and because this court has itself been inequitable in its dealing with the matter, I think it is wrong to require further of appellee. I would affirm the order appealed and immediately remand the case to the trial court for expedited consideration.