Case ID: so2d_521/html/0298-01.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

Chris KARSTETER, Petitioner, v. The GRAHAM COMPANIES f/k/a the Sengra Corporation, a Florida corporation, Respondent.
    No. 87-2084.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    March 8, 1988.
    Ress, Gomez, Rosenberg, Howland & Mintz and Steven A. Edelstein, North Miami, for petitioner.
    Wisehart & Joyce and Elizabeth W. Joyce, Miami, for respondent.
    Before BASKIN, FERGUSON, JORGENSON, JJ.
   PER CURIAM.

Section 83.60(2), Florida Statutes (1985), which requires a tenant asserting a right to possession to deposit rent into the court registry pending resolution of the litigation, is not unconstitutional. See Lindsey v. Normet, 405 U.S. 56, 92 S.Ct. 862, 31 L.Ed.2d 36 (1972); K.D. Lewis Enters. Corp. v. Smith, 445 So.2d 1032 (Fla. 5th DCA 1984). See § 718.401(4), Fla.Stat. (1985); Farrell v. Drew, 19 N.Y.2d 486, 281 N.Y.S.2d 1, 227 N.E.2d 824 (1967).

Certiorari denied.