Euro Nut Auto Repair, LLC v. Gary Williams

• Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida
• Decided: July 10, 2024
• Docket: 2023-2538
• Status: Published

Opinion

DISTRICT COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA FOURTH DISTRICT

EURO NUT AUTO REPAIR, LLC, Appellant,

v.

GARY WILLIAMS, Appellee.

No. 4D2023-2538

[July 10, 2024]

Appeal from the County Court for the Nineteenth Judicial Circuit, Indian River County; Nicole P. Menz, Judge; L.T. Case No. 312023SC000753.

Ryan Scott DiGiovanni of Ryan Scott DiGiovanni, PLLC, Vero Beach, for appellant.

No brief filed for appellee.

PER CURIAM.

Affirmed. See Bunting v. Daly’s, Inc., 528 So. 2d 106, 107 (Fla. 4th DCA 1988) (rejecting the argument that under section 319.22(1), Florida Statutes (1985), a plaintiff did not have standing or a cause of action for conversion because he did not hold a title certificate in his name, because that statute only affects the marketability of title); Williams Mgmt. Enters., Inc. v. Buonauro, 489 So. 2d 160, 164 (Fla. 5th DCA 1986) (“[R]eplevin is strictly a possessory action where the sole legal issue is the right of immediate possession, not ownership or title.”); Southside Atl. Bank v. Lewis, 174 So. 2d 470, 471 (Fla. 1st DCA 1965) (“The only issue to be determined in a replevin action is the right of possession. The question of title is secondary and unimportant where title and the right to immediate possession have been separated.”).

KLINGENSMITH, C.J., GROSS and FORST, JJ., concur.

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Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.