Case Name: BUSINESS FUNDING GROUP, INC., Appellant, v. SCHOOL BOARD OF DADE COUNTY and Edward Brown, Appellees
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1996-06-19
Citations: 675 So. 2d 1017
Docket Number: No. 95-2671
Parties: BUSINESS FUNDING GROUP, INC., Appellant, v. SCHOOL BOARD OF DADE COUNTY and Edward Brown, Appellees.
Judges: Before SCHWARTZ, JORGENSON and GODERICH, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 675
Pages: 1017–1017

Head Matter:
BUSINESS FUNDING GROUP, INC., Appellant, v. SCHOOL BOARD OF DADE COUNTY and Edward Brown, Appellees.
No. 95-2671.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
June 19, 1996.
Greenspoon, Marder, Hirschfeld & Rafkin, William Berger, Edmund Loos III, Ft. Laud-erdale and Stephanie Yelenosky, Orlando, for appellant.
Peters, Robertson, Lax, Parsons, Welcher, Mowers & Passaro and Geralyn M. Passaro, Miami, for appellees.
Before SCHWARTZ, JORGENSON and GODERICH, JJ.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
There was sufficient evidence presented to allow a jury to find that the Supervisor of the Accounts Payable Department of the Dade County School Board did have either actual or apparent authority to act on behalf of the School Board when verifying the validity of an outstanding invoice for the plaintiff. Therefore, the trial court erred in granting the School Board's motion for directed verdict on the plaintiffs count for negligent misrepresentation. Yanks v. Barnett, 563 So.2d 776 (Fla. 3d DCA 1990), review denied, 576 So.2d 295 (Fla.1991); Mathis v. Lambert, 274 So.2d 601 (Fla. 3d DCA 1973). Accordingly, we reverse and remand for a new trial.
Reversed and remanded.