Case ID: fla_81/html/0641-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

City of Tampa, a Municipal Corporation, Plaintiff in Error, v. Emmett Hohne, Defendant in Error.
    
    Decision Filed April 26, 1921.
    A Writ of Error to the Circuit Court for Hillsborough County; F. M. Robles, Judge.
    
      W. F. Holmes, for Plaintiff in Error.
    
      E. B. Drumwright, for Defendant in Error.
   Per Curiam.

In an action to recover the value of lands appropriated by the city for street purposes, the evidence tends to show a continuing trespass which avoids the operation of the statute of limitations to bar the action; but the amount of damages awarded appears to be excessive in view of the provative force of the testimony; therefore, the judgment is reversed and a new trial granted, unless the plaintiff below enters a remittitur of nine hundred dollars within thirty days after the mandate is filed below, in which case the judgment will stand affirmed for the sum of $1,900.00, and costs in the court below.

It is so ordered.

All concur.