SOUTHEASTERN ASSOC., INC. v. First Georgia Bank

362 So. 2d 967, 1978 Fla. App. LEXIS 16640

Opinion

362 So.2d 967 (1978)

SOUTHEASTERN ASSOCIATES, INC., Appellant,
v.
FIRST GEORGIA BANK, Appellee.

No. II-381.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

August 25, 1978. Rehearing Denied October 20, 1978.

Larry L. Bryan, Jacksonville Beach, for appellant.

George L. Hudspeth of Mahoney, Hadlow & Adams, Jacksonville, for appellee.

SMITH, Acting Chief Judge.

An appeal from a money judgment entered on a promissory note. The appellant corporation asserts that the trial court erred in declining to permit its sole stockholder, a layman, to act as attorney for the corporation and to conduct its defense. The court did not err. A corporation is not a person entitled to conduct its own defense, nor may it nominate a nonlawyer to do so. Nicholson Supply Co. v. First Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n, 184 So.2d 438 (Fla. 2d DCA 1966); Angelini v. Mobile Home Village, Inc., 310 So.2d 776 (Fla. 1st DCA 1975).

AFFIRMED.

MELVIN and BOOTH, JJ., concur.