Case Name: J.D. BRYANT, individually and as Trustee of the Gorman Co., Inc. Profit Sharing Trust Agreement Amended and Restated; Herbert H. Gorman, Jr., individually and as Trustee of the Gorman Co., Inc. Profit Sharing Trust Agreement Amended and Restated; and Richard E. McLaughlin, as Trustee of the Gorman Co., Inc. Profit Sharing Trust Agreement Amended and Restated, Appellants, v. COORDINATED PROGRAMS, INC., a Florida corporation, and Aetna Casualty and Surety Company, a Connecticut corporation, Appellees
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1988-12-14
Citations: 534 So. 2d 932
Docket Number: No. 88-400
Parties: J.D. BRYANT, individually and as Trustee of the Gorman Co., Inc. Profit Sharing Trust Agreement Amended and Restated; Herbert H. Gorman, Jr., individually and as Trustee of the Gorman Co., Inc. Profit Sharing Trust Agreement Amended and Restated; and Richard E. McLaughlin, as Trustee of the Gorman Co., Inc. Profit Sharing Trust Agreement Amended and Restated, Appellants, v. COORDINATED PROGRAMS, INC., a Florida corporation, and Aetna Casualty and Surety Company, a Connecticut corporation, Appellees.
Judges: BOOTH, SHIVERS and THOMPSON, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 534
Pages: 932–932

Head Matter:
J.D. BRYANT, individually and as Trustee of the Gorman Co., Inc. Profit Sharing Trust Agreement Amended and Restated; Herbert H. Gorman, Jr., individually and as Trustee of the Gorman Co., Inc. Profit Sharing Trust Agreement Amended and Restated; and Richard E. McLaughlin, as Trustee of the Gorman Co., Inc. Profit Sharing Trust Agreement Amended and Restated, Appellants, v. COORDINATED PROGRAMS, INC., a Florida corporation, and Aetna Casualty and Surety Company, a Connecticut corporation, Appellees.
No. 88-400.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
Dec. 14, 1988.
Sidney L. Matthew of Gorman & Matthew, P.A., Tallahassee, for appellants.
Martin J. Mickler of Martin J. Mickler, P.A., Jacksonville, for appellee Coordinated Programs, Inc.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
This cause is before us on appeal from orders of the trial court denying appellants' motion for rehearing and dismissing counts sounding in negligent misrepresentation and contract for failure to state a cause of action. In considering a motion to dismiss for failure to state a cause of action, the trial court must take all material allegations of the complaint as true and must confine itself strictly to the allegations within the complaint's four corners. Platte' v. Whitfield Realty Company, Inc., 511 So.2d 720 (Fla. 1st DCA 1987); Maciejewski v. Holland, 441 So.2d 703 (Fla.2d DCA 1988). In the present case, appellants have alleged the necessary elements of negligent misrepresentation and contract. In reviewing appellants' complaint in light of the rule, we find it states a cause of action. We accordingly reverse, and remand for proceedings consistent herewith.
BOOTH, SHIVERS and THOMPSON, JJ., concur.