Case ID: so2d_353/html/0159-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

CAPITAL BANK OF NORTH BAY VILLAGE, f/k/a Bank of North Bay Village, a Florida Bank Corporation, Appellant, v. HARTNETT BUILDING MANAGEMENT, INC., a Florida Corporation, William J. Hartnett, John J. Hartnett, Robert C. Hartnett, James D. Hartnett, Elizabeth R. Hartnett, Jacqueline B. Hartnett, Kathleen N. Hartnett, Katherine P. Hartnett, Appellees.
    No. 76-1275.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    Nov. 29, 1977.
    Rehearing Denied Jan. 9, 1978.
    Stroock, Stroock & Lavan, Miami, for appellant.
    Ritter & Ritter, John L. Hartnett, Coral Gables, for appellees.
    Before PEARSON, HUBBART and KE-HOE, JJ.
   PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal from an order dismissing with prejudice the appellees as defendants from plaintiff’s complaint. The appel-lees were the alleged endorsees and the alleged guarantors of a bank debt. After hearing the motion to dismiss, the trial court entered the order appealed from which found as a matter of fact that the personal guarantees were inconsistent with negotiations between the bank and the debtors. This finding of fact is outside the scope of a ruling on a motion to dismiss inasmuch as a motion to dismiss admits all matters well pleaded and should be granted with prejudice only when it appears from the complaint that the plaintiff cannot state a cause of action against the defendants. See Posey v. Ford Motor Company, 128 So.2d 149 (Fla. 1st DCA 1961); and Leonard v. Browne, 134 So.2d 872 (Fla. 1st DCA 1961).

Therefore, the order dismissing the complaint as to these defendants is reversed with directions to grant the defendants a reasonable time to file an answer setting up the factual defenses relied upon.

Reversed and remanded with directions.