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FRUIT GROWERS EXPRESS COMPANY, Appellant, v. Dan P. McCLURE, Appellee.
    Nos. 76-1451, 76-1533.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    Nov. 23, 1976.
    High, Stack, Davis & Lazenby and Alan R. Dakan, William L. Gray, III, Paul M. Stokes, Edward Magill, .Miami, Patrick H. Dickinson, Sarasota, for appellant.
    Holland & Knight and Warren M. Goodrich, Bradenton, Pallot, Stern, Proby & Adkins, Miami, for appellee.
    
      Before PEARSON and HENDRY, JJ., and CHARLES CARROLL (Ret.), Associate Judge.
   PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. See Gaboury v. Flagler Hospital, Inc., 316 So.2d 642 (Fla. 4th DCA 1975), where the rule is stated:

“The granting or refusal of the application for change of venue is within the sound discretion of the trial court and will not be disturbed upon review absent a demonstration of a palpable abuse or grossly improvident exercise of discretion. See, McMichael v. Harris, 127 Fla. 861, 174 So. 323 (1939); Spalding v. Von Zamft, 180 So.2d 208 (3rd DCA Fla.1965); Florida East Coast Railway Company v. Hardee, 167 So.2d 68 (3rd DCA Fla. 1964).”