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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Charles CREIGHTON, Appellant, v. C.J. BRANNAN, Jr., and Don Schaaf, individually, and d/b/a Gibraltar Oil & Gas Company, Appellees. C.J. BRANNAN, Jr., Appellant, v. Charles CREIGHTON and Clifford W. Trice, et al., Appellees. C.J. BRANNAN, Jr., and Don Schaaf, Appellants, v. Charles CREIGHTON and Clifford W. Trice, et al., Appellees.
    Nos. 82-2504, 83-63 and 83-287.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
    Oct. 19, 1983.
    Earl Faircloth of Faircloth, Easthope & Traver, Fort Lauderdale, for Charles Creighton.
    James W. Crabtree of Smathers & Thompson, Miami, for Don Schaaf.
    Mark S. Schecter of Schecter & Sherr, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for C.J. Brannan, Jr.
    Randolph W. Adams, Fort Lauderdale, for appellees-Clifford W. Trice and Oil Country Management, Inc.
   PER CURIAM.

AFFIRMED.

GLICKSTEIN and HURLEY, JJ., concur.

WALDEN, J., dissents, with opinion.

WALDEN, Judge,

dissenting.

In my opinion there was an ambiguity as concerns the written contract. Thus, parole testimony should have been allowed to explain the intent of the parties. I would reverse upon authority of Royal American Rlty. v. Bank of Palm Beach & Tr. Co., 215 So.2d 336 (Fla. 4th DCA 1968) and Friedman v. Virginia Metal Products Corp., 56 So.2d 515 (Fla.1952).