Case Name: GRAPIN & CHAYKIN, M.D., P.A., and Bertram Grapin and Louis Chaykin, individually, Appellants, v. TURNOFF & FOX, M.D., P.A., a Florida Professional Association, and Howard Turnoff and Steven Fox, individually, Appellees
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1982-04-27
Citations: 413 So. 2d 133
Docket Number: Nos. 81-169, 81-174
Parties: GRAPIN & CHAYKIN, M.D., P.A., and Bertram Grapin and Louis Chaykin, individually, Appellants, v. TURNOFF & FOX, M.D., P.A., a Florida Professional Association, and Howard Turnoff and Steven Fox, individually, Appellees.
Judges: Before SCHWARTZ, NESBITT and JOR-GENSON, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 413
Pages: 133–134

Head Matter:
GRAPIN & CHAYKIN, M.D., P.A., and Bertram Grapin and Louis Chaykin, individually, Appellants, v. TURNOFF & FOX, M.D., P.A., a Florida Professional Association, and Howard Turnoff and Steven Fox, individually, Appellees.
Nos. 81-169, 81-174.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
April 27, 1982.
Kelly, Black, Black & Earle and Hugo L. Black, Jr., Miami, for appellants.
Horton, Perse & Ginsberg and Mallory H. Horton, Miami, for appellees.
Before SCHWARTZ, NESBITT and JOR-GENSON, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The trial court order adjudging plaintiffs in contempt of court and ordering them to pay to the defendants the sum of $250 per day for each and every day they remained in violation of orders requiring them to make discovery, is void for the failure of the order to contain findings that the alleged contemnors had the present ability to comply with the underlying discovery orders. Garo v. Garo, 347 So.2d 418 (Fla.1977); Epstein v. Epstein, 345 So.2d 398 (Fla.3d DCA 1977).
Reversed.