Case Name: Samuel COHEN, Appellant, v. Ada Turkish TRASK, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1985-05-28
Citations: 471 So. 2d 1294
Docket Number: No. 84-2058
Parties: Samuel COHEN, Appellant, v. Ada Turkish TRASK, Appellee.
Judges: Before HENDRY and DANIEL S. PEARSON and JORGENSON, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 471
Pages: 1294–1295

Head Matter:
Samuel COHEN, Appellant, v. Ada Turkish TRASK, Appellee.
No. 84-2058.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
May 28, 1985.
Rehearing Denied July 22, 1985.
Milton E. Grusmark, Miami, for appellant.
Kimbrell, Hamann, Jennings, Womack, Carlson & Kniskern and Michael Fertig, Miami, and Matthew Minnow, for appellee.
Before HENDRY and DANIEL S. PEARSON and JORGENSON, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The summary judgment entered against the plaintiff on the ground that his defamation action against the defendant was barred by New York's one-year limitation period for such action is reversed upon a holding that, although the complaint is imprecise, it can generously be viewed as saying that the defamatory material first published in New York was later republished in Florida, thus meaning that Florida's four-year statute of limitations would apply to this republication, and an action based on the republication would not be limitations-barred. Upon remand, the plaintiff should be permitted to amend his complaint to specifically set forth when the publication in Florida occurred and to whom and under what circumstances it was made. Our decision is without prejudice to the defendant's right to move again for summary judgment on any appropriate grounds.
Reversed and remanded.
HENDRY and DANIEL S. PEARSON, ' JJ., concur.