Grandin Indus., Inc. v. FLA. NAT. BANK AT ORLANDO

267 So. 2d 26
CourtDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida
DecidedSeptember 12, 1972
Docket71-778
StatusPublished
Cited by11 cases

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Grandin Indus., Inc. v. FLA. NAT. BANK AT ORLANDO, 267 So. 2d 26 (Fla. Ct. App. 1972).

Opinion

267 So.2d 26 (1972)

GRANDIN INDUSTRIES, INC., Appellant,
v.
FLORIDA NATIONAL BANK AT ORLANDO, Appellee.

No. 71-778.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

September 12, 1972.

*27 William C. Frye of Trenam, Simmons, Kemker, Scharf & Barkin, Tampa, for appellant.

Monroe E. McDonald of Sanders, McEwan, Mims & McDonald, Orlando, for appellee.

REED, Chief Judge.

The issue here is whether or not the Circuit Court for Orange County, Florida, erred in entering a summary final judgment for the defendant.

The plaintiff in this case, Grandin Industries, Inc., an Ohio corporation, filed a complaint on 6 July 1970. The complaint is in two counts. In the first count, Grandin Industries, Inc., attempted to state a cause of action in its capacity as an assignee of CMC, Inc., a Florida corporation, formerly known as Citrus Machinery Company, Inc. The second count which is based on the same factual averments as the first is brought by the plaintiff as the sole shareholder of the capital stock of CMC, Inc.

The defendant, the Florida National Bank at Orlando, denied all essential allegations of the complaint and set up various defenses which are not material to the appellate issue. On 10 August 1971 the trial court granted defendant's motion for summary judgment and entered a final judgment for defendant from which the plaintiff has taken this appeal.

The essential facts are taken from the complaint and appellant's brief. The complaint alleged that on 26 October 1967 the defendant loaned CMC, Inc., $75,000.00. The loan was thereafter increased to $125,000.00. The loan was secured by a real property mortgage. On 8 February 1968 CMC, Inc., and the defendant agreed that the amount of the mortgage loan was $125,100.00 and would be repaid at the rate of $2,000.00 per month. Thereafter CMC, Inc., and the defendant entered into a Security Agreement which contemplated account receivable financing. The pertinent paragraphs in the agreement are as follows:

"2. Bank will from time to time hereafter lend Borrower, on the security of *28 accounts and contract rights, or either of them, acceptable to Bank, such amounts as Bank may determine from time to time, at such rates of interest and payable on such terms as Bank may from time to time specify or require, and Bank may require that such loans, or any of them, be evidenced by promissory note or notes of the Borrower in form satisfactory to Bank... .
"3. As security for the payment of all loans and advances now or in the future made hereunder and for all Borrower's liabilities, including any extensions, renewals, or changes in form of any thereof: (a) if the office where Borrower keeps its records concerning its accounts and contract rights is in this or any other state in which the Uniform Commercial Code is in effect, Borrower hereby assigns to Bank and grants to Bank a security interest in: (i) all accounts owned by Borrower at the date of this agreement; (ii) all accounts at any time hereafter acquired by Borrower. ...
"4. So long as any liability to Bank is outstanding, Borrower will not without the prior written consent of Bank ... permit any lien or encumbrance to attach to any of the foregoing, or any levy to be made thereon. ...
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"7. Unless Bank notifies Borrower in writing that it dispenses with any one or more of the following requirements, Borrower will: ... (f) receive as the sole property of Bank and hold as trustee for Bank all moneys, checks, notes, drafts, and other property therein called `items of payment' representing the proceeds of any account contract right or inventory in which Bank has a security interest, which come into the possession of Borrower; and deposit all such items of payment immediately in the exact form received in a special account of Borrower in Bank entitled `Cash Collateral Account' in which account Bank shall have a security interest to secure all Borrower's liabilities and with respect to which account Bank alone shall have power of withdrawal. .. ."
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"11. Bank shall have the right at any time and from time to time, without notice to: (a) apply any part or all of the moneys in the Cash Collateral Account representing collected items against any liability of borrower to Bank ... (e) notify Purchasers that accounts or contract rights have been assigned to Bank, forward invoices to Purchasers, directing them to make payments to Bank, collect all accounts in its or Borrower's name, and take control of any cash or non-cash proceeds of accounts and of any returned or repossessed goods; (f) compromise, extend or renew any account or deal with the same as it may deem advisable. ...
"12. If at any time any warranty, representation, certificate or statement of Borrower is not true, or if any liability or any part or installment thereof or interest thereon is not paid when due or if any event of default as defined in any note or other evidence of liability held by Bank should occur, or if Borrower should fail to observe or perform any agreement or term thereof, or if Bank at any time feels insecure for any reason whatsoever, Bank may, at its option, thereupon or thereafter declare all liabilities of Borrower to Bank ... immediately due and payable without demand or notice of any kind....
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"16. This agreement may be terminated by either party giving the other written notice of intention to terminate on a date named in said notice, mailed to the last known address of the party to whom such notice is addressed; but no such termination shall in any way affect the rights and liabilities of the parties hereunder relating to loans or advances made, accounts, contract rights, or other *29 property pledged prior to the date named in such notice." (Emphasis added.)
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In July 1968 CMC, Inc., was indebted to the United States for back taxes in the approximate amount of $43,000.00. On 3 July 1968 the Internal Revenue Service filed a notice of levy and served a copy on the defendant Bank. The notice of levy indicates an indebtedness for taxes in the total amount of $43,905.32. It is addressed to Florida National Bank at Orlando and states:

"You are further notified that demand has been made for the amount set forth herein upon the taxpayer who has neglected or refused to pay, and that such amount is still due, owing and unpaid from this taxpayer. Accordingly, you are further notified that all property, rights to property, moneys, credits, and bank deposits now in your possession and belonging to this taxpayer (or with respect to which you are obligated) and all sums of money or other obligations owing from you to this taxpayer, or on which there is a lien provided under Chapter 64, Internal Revenue Code of 1954, are hereby levied upon and seized for satisfaction of the aforesaid tax, together with all additions provided by law, and demand is hereby made upon you for the amount necessary to satisfy the liability set forth herein, or for such lesser sum as you may be indebted to him, to be applied as a payment on his tax liability... ."

The notice of levy inspired a meeting on July 5, 1968, between the president of the defendant bank, O.P. Hewitt, IRS agent Kennedy, and David Crawford, the prime functionary of CMC, Inc.

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