White v. Greymar Associates, LLC

Third District Court of Appeal State of Florida Opinion filed November 09, 2016. Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing. ________________ No. 3D16-617 Lower Tribunal Nos. 11-32285, 05-6744 ________________ Pamela Z. White, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Willie D. Williams, Appellant, vs. Greymar Associates, LLC, Appellee. An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Monica Gordo, Judge. Carlos A. Ziegenhirt, for appellant. Mark Evans Kass, for appellee. Before SALTER, EMAS and FERNANDEZ, JJ. EMAS, J. We affirm the trial court’s entry of partial summary judgment, as well as the subsequent final judgment of foreclosure, each entered in favor of appellee, upon its determination that appellee was a bona fide purchaser for value, and because there was no evidence establishing that, at the time appellee acquired its mortgage interest, it had constructive or actual notice of the existence of an unrecorded agreement, upon which appellant relies for the contention that appellant had a previously-acquired and outstanding interest in the property. See § 695.01(1), Fla. Stat. (2008); Gabel v. Drewrys Ltd., U.S.A., Inc., 68 So. 2d 372 (Fla. 1953); Warner v. Watson, 17 So. 654 (Fla. 1895). We also find no error in the trial court’s denial of appellant’s motion to stay execution of the final judgment.1 1 We note that, at the time the notice of appeal was filed, there remained unadjudicated counterclaims below in lower case number 05-6744. However, appellee is not a party to those counterclaims and neither the trial court proceedings which form the basis for this appeal, nor our disposition of this appeal, affects appellant’s right to proceed on those counterclaims. 2