Case Name: CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING FROM FLORIDA, INC., a Florida corporation, National Wrestling Alliance, Virgil Runnels, Jr. and City of West Palm Beach, Appellants, v. Stephen DeBLASIO a/k/a Big Daddy, and Susan DeBlasio, his wife, Appellees
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1987-06-03
Citations: 508 So. 2d 1274
Docket Number: No. 4-86-2247
Parties: CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING FROM FLORIDA, INC., a Florida corporation, National Wrestling Alliance, Virgil Runnels, Jr. and City of West Palm Beach, Appellants, v. Stephen DeBLASIO a/k/a Big Daddy, and Susan DeBlasio, his wife, Appellees.
Judges: DELL and WALDEN, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 508
Pages: 1274–1274

Head Matter:
CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING FROM FLORIDA, INC., a Florida corporation, National Wrestling Alliance, Virgil Runnels, Jr. and City of West Palm Beach, Appellants, v. Stephen DeBLASIO a/k/a Big Daddy, and Susan DeBlasio, his wife, Appellees.
No. 4-86-2247.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.
June 3, 1987.
Rehearing Denied July 21, 1987.
John Beranek of Klein & Beranek, P.A., and John J. Bulfin of Wiederhold, Moses & Bulfin, P.A., West Palm Beach, for appellants.
Jeffrey H. Wolfson, and Michael B. Ni-pón, Fort Lauderdale, for appellees.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
We reverse this matter because the trial court did not expressly find, nor does the record conclusively reveal, that appellants' failure to comply with discovery was a willful refusal to obey. Mercer v. Raine, 443 So.2d 944 (Fla.1983); Garden-Aire Village Sea Haven v. Decker, 433 So.2d 676 (Fla. 4th DCA 1983). In absence of such an express finding of willful refusal the sanction of default is too severe. We reverse the order of default and remand with leave to impose lesser sanctions.
REVERSED.
DELL and WALDEN, JJ., concur.
ANSTEAD, J., concurs specially with opinion.