Case Name: The DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, Appellant, v. The CITY OF MIAMI, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1982-08-10
Citations: 417 So. 2d 1092
Docket Number: Nos. 81-2224, 81-2754
Parties: The DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, Appellant, v. The CITY OF MIAMI, Appellee.
Judges: Before NESBITT, BASKIN and DANIEL S. PEARSON, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 417
Pages: 1092–1093

Head Matter:
The DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, Appellant, v. The CITY OF MIAMI, Appellee.
Nos. 81-2224, 81-2754.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Aug. 10, 1982.
Margaret-Ray Kemper and Jay 0. Barber and John H. Beck and Mark A. Linsky, Tallahassee, for appellant.
Jose R. Garcia-Pedrosa, City Atty., and Mikele S. Carter, Asst. City Atty., for ap-pellee.
Before NESBITT, BASKIN and DANIEL S. PEARSON, JJ.

Opinion:
BASKIN, Judge.
We reverse the final judgment entered by the trial court following its dismissal of appellant's complaint for failure to state a cause of action. The dismissal was improperly predicated upon affirmative defenses which may not be asserted in a motion to dismiss. Hough v. Menses, 95 So.2d 410 (Fla.1957); Vaswani v. Ganobsek, 402 So.2d 1350 (Fla. 4th DCA 1981); Sproul v. McDonald's Systems, 397 So.2d 462 (Fla. 4th DCA 1981); In re Estate of Donner, 364 So.2d 757 (Fla. 3d DCA 1978); Fontaine-bleau Hotel Gorp. v. Forty-Five Twenty-Five, Inc., 172 So.2d 248 (Fla. 3d DCA 1965); Moskovits v. Moskovits, 112 So.2d 875 (Fla. 1st DCA 1959); Fla.R.Civ.P. 1.110(d).
Reversed and remanded for further proceedings.