Case Name: BRITISH AMERICAN CATTLE CO. and Ronald Byron Zent, Appellants, v. Alfred EDWARDS, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1999-12-08
Citations: 745 So. 2d 536
Docket Number: No. 99-818
Parties: BRITISH AMERICAN CATTLE CO. and Ronald Byron Zent, Appellants, v. Alfred EDWARDS, Appellee.
Judges: Before GERSTEN, GODERICH, and FLETCHER, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 745
Pages: 536–537

Head Matter:
BRITISH AMERICAN CATTLE CO. and Ronald Byron Zent, Appellants, v. Alfred EDWARDS, Appellee.
No. 99-818.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Dec. 8, 1999.
Zach Kosnitzky, Miami, and Orion G. Callison, III, Miami, and J. Ross Gibson, Tuscaloosa, AL, for appellants.
Terry D. Bork, Los Angeles, CA; Rubin & Rubin, and I. Mark Rubin (Jacksonville), for appellee.
Before GERSTEN, GODERICH, and FLETCHER, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Defendants appeal an adverse final judgment enforcing a settlement agreement claiming the settlement agreement entered into by the parties was void due to a mutual material mistake and lack of mutual assent. We find that the mistake was not material and the settlement agreement was valid. See Moore v. Wesley E. Garrison, Inc., 148 Fla. 653, 5 So.2d 259 (1942); Williams, Salomon, Kanner, Damian, Weissler & Brooks v. Harbour Club Villas Condominium Assoc., Inc., 436 So.2d 233 (Fla. 3rd DCA 1983). Because the settlement agreement was valid, the trial court should have deducted the defendants' land acquisition costs incurred to effectuate the sale. Therefore, the plaintiff is to bear his proportional 15% of the $50,000 land acquisition, to wit, $7500. Accordingly, the judgment appealed from, as modified herein, is affirmed.
Affirmed as modified.