CAPE COD TRUST CO. v. WIXON

Full title: CAPE COD TRUST CO., APPELLANT, v. CLAYTON S. WIXON ET AL., APPELLEES

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District

Date published: Jul 27, 1962

143 So. 2d 339 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1962)

Opinion

No. 2492.

July 11, 1962. Rehearing Denied July 27, 1962.

Appeal from the Circuit Court of Sarasota County, Robert E. Hensley, J.

Icard, Merrill, Cullis Timm, Sarasota, for appellant.

Boone, Smith, Hazen Isphording, Venice, for appellees.

PER CURIAM.

Affirmed on authority of Bessemer Properties, Inc. v. Gamble, 1946, 158 Fla. 38, 27 So.2d 832; and Orange Brevard Plumbing Heating Co. v. La Croix, Fla. 1962, 137 So.2d 201.

It is fundamental that fraud and deceit, if not acted on or accompanied by injury, are moral, not legal wrongs. Stokes v. Victory Land Co., 1930, 99 Fla. 795, 128 So. 408, 409. See also Casey v. Welch, Fla. 1951, 50 So.2d 124; Sutton v. Gulf Life Ins. Co., 1939, 138 Fla. 692, 189 So. 828; and Stephens v. Coon, 1937, 130 Fla. 42, 177 So. 191.

Affirmed.

SHANNON, C.J., SMITH, J., and STEPHENSON, GUNTER, Associate Judge, concur.