Case ID: so2d_370/html/1170-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

SOUTH PUERTO RICO SUGAR COMPANY and Aetna Casualty & Surety Company, Appellants, v. TEM-COLE, INC., Talismans Sugar Corporation and Home Insurance Company, Appellees.
    No. 78-1308.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
    Jan. 31, 1979.
    
      Edna L. Caruso and Schuler & Wilkerson, West Palm Beach, for appellants.
    Marjorie D. Gadarian of Jones, Paine & Foster, West Palm Beach, for appellees.
   PER CURIAM.

Before us is a motion to dismiss an appeal commenced by one co-defendant who seeks review of a final judgment exonerating another co-defendant from liability. On the authority of Christian et al. v. Popovich et al., 363 So.2d 2 (Fla. 1st DCA 1978) and Sol Walker & Co. v. Seaboard Coast Line R. Co., 362 So.2d 45 (Fla. 2d DCA 1978) the motion to dismiss is denied.

In so ruling we hold that the right of one co-defendant to appeal a judgment which exonerates another co-defendant is inherently implied in Florida’s Contribution Act, Florida Statutes (1977) § 768.31.

CROSS, LETTS and MOORE, JJ., concur.