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- Title: South Dade Farms v. Frederick C. Peters and Berenice Todd Peters
- Author : En Banc. Supreme Court of Florida
- Release Date : January 04, 1956
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 81 KB
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By petition for writ of certiorari the petitioners, South Dade Farms, Inc., James Sottile, Jr., and William Sottile, seek reversal of a decree of the Chancellor entered April 22, 1955, adjudging South Dade Farms, Inc., a corporation, in contempt of court for violation of an injunction decree entered June 5, 1953. The contempt order assessed against said corporation a "compensatory fine" in the total amount of $738,260.75. The order also contained a contingent jail sentence for the two individual petitioners, who were officers of the corporation, conditioned on payment of the compensatory fine by the corporation. There was a provision for issuance of writ of execution. The original cause out of which this contempt proceeding follows was previously before this court. See South Dade Farms, Inc., v. Peters, Fla.1953, 69 So.2d 890.