Title: Paul Pomfret, et al. v. John Atkinson
Citation: N/A
Docket Number: SC11-665
State: Florida
Issuer: Florida Supreme Court
Date: November 27, 2013

Supreme Court of Florida 
 
 
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No. SC11-665 
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PAUL POMFRET, et al.,  
Petitioners, 
 
vs. 
 
JOHN ATKINSON,  
Respondent. 
 
[November 27, 2013] 
 
PER CURIAM. 
 
We have for review Pomfret v. Atkinson, 53 So. 3d 413 (Fla. 4th DCA 
2011), in which the Fourth District Court of Appeal cited as authority its decision 
in DelMonico v. Traynor, 50 So. 3d 4 (Fla. 4th DCA 2010), quashed, 116 So. 3d 
1205 (Fla. 2013).  At the time that the Fourth District issued its decision in 
Pomfret, DelMonico was pending review in this Court.  We have jurisdiction.  See 
art. V, § 3(b)(3), Fla. Const.; Jollie v. State, 405 So. 2d 418 (Fla. 1981).   
We stayed proceedings in this case pending our disposition of DelMonico v. 
Traynor, 116 So. 3d 1205, 1209 (Fla. 2013), in which we ultimately quashed the 
Fourth District’s underlying DelMonico decision.  We then issued an order 
 
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directing the Respondent in this case to show cause why this Court should not 
accept jurisdiction, summarily quash the Fourth District’s underlying Pomfret 
decision, and remand for reconsideration in light of our decision in DelMonico.   
Upon consideration of the response, in which the Respondent agrees with 
the disposition set forth in the order to show cause, we grant the petition for 
review, quash the Fourth District’s decision in Pomfret, and remand this case to the 
Fourth District for further proceedings consistent with our decision in DelMonico. 
 
It is so ordered. 
 
PARIENTE, LEWIS, QUINCE, LABARGA, and PERRY, JJ., concur. 
POLSTON, C.J., and CANADY, J., dissent. 
 
NOT FINAL UNTIL TIME EXPIRES TO FILE REHEARING MOTION, AND 
IF FILED, DETERMINED. 
 
Application for Review of the Decision of the District Court of Appeal – Direct 
Conflict of Decisions  
 
 
Fourth District – Case No. 4D09-1708 
 
(Palm Beach County) 
  
Alan B. Rose, L. Louis Mrachek, Roy E. Fitzgerald, and Stefanie R. Shelley of 
Page, Mrachek, Fitzgerald & Rose, P.A., West Palm Beach, Florida, 
  
for Petitioners 
  
Jane Kreusler-Walsh and Rebecca Mercier Vargas of Kreusler-Walsh, Compiani & 
Vargas, P. A., West Palm Beach, Florida; Bernard A. Lebedeker of Burman, 
Critton, Luttier & Coleman of West Palm Beach, Florida,  
 
for Respondent