Case Name: POWERLINE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, a Florida corporation, Petitioner, v. Isaac ASSOR, Jose Bentolila, Moses Chacron and Bernard Tetner and Ven Power, N.V., a Netherlands Antilles corporation, Respondents
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1984-09-04
Citations: 458 So. 2d 305
Docket Number: No. 84-1631
Parties: POWERLINE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, a Florida corporation, Petitioner, v. Isaac ASSOR, Jose Bentolila, Moses Chacron and Bernard Tetner and Ven Power, N.V., a Netherlands Antilles corporation, Respondents.
Judges: Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and BASKIN and DANIEL S. PEARSON, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 458
Pages: 305–306

Head Matter:
POWERLINE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, a Florida corporation, Petitioner, v. Isaac ASSOR, Jose Bentolila, Moses Chacron and Bernard Tetner and Ven Power, N.V., a Netherlands Antilles corporation, Respondents.
No. 84-1631.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Sept. 4, 1984.
Rehearing Denied Oct. 2, 1984.
Arvin Peltz, Peter R. Lopez, Miami, for petitioner.
Daniels & Hicks and Patrice A. Talisman, Miami, Norman K. Schwarz, Miami Beach, for respondents.
Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and BASKIN and DANIEL S. PEARSON, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The instant petition for certiorari challenges the refusal to dissolve a lis pendens. The orders under review are quashed because the underlying action, which concerns allegedly fraudulent transactions involving interests in the petitioner-corporation which owns the property, does not directly affect the realty itself and therefore cannot justify the maintenance of a lis pendens upon it. Sunrise Point, Inc. v. Foss, 373 So.2d 438 (Fla. 3d DCA 1979), cert. denied, 374 So.2d 99 (Fla.1979); Hallmark Manufacturing, Inc. v. Lujack Construction Co., Inc., 372 So.2d 520 (Fla. 4th DCA 1979); Worldwide Development-Kendale Lakes West v. Lot Headquarters, Inc., 305 So.2d 271 (Fla. 3d DCA 1974); Beefy King International, Inc. v. Veigle, 464 F.2d 1102 (5th Cir.1972).
Certiorari granted.