Third District Court of Appeal
State of Florida
Opinion filed May 18, 2022.
Not final until disposition of timely filed motion for rehearing.
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No. 3D21-1307
Lower Tribunal No. 19-35052
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Transway Airfreight Cargo, Inc.,
Appellant,
vs.
Mohammed Biltagi,
Appellee.
An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Miami-Dade County, Valerie R.
Manno Schurr, Judge.
Blaxberg, Grayson, Kukoff & Forteza, P.A., Moises T. Grayson and
Lissette Garcia, for appellant.
Blanck & Cooper, P.A., and Jonathan S. Cooper, for appellee.
Before LINDSEY, GORDO and BOKOR, JJ.
PER CURIAM.
Affirmed. Flatirons Bank v. Alan W. Steinberg Ltd. P’ship,
233 So. 3d
1207, 1212 (Fla. 3d DCA 2017) (“We affirm because the trial court’s findings
are supported by competent, substantial evidence.”); Star Fruit Co. v. Eagle
Lake Growers,
33 So. 2d 858, 860 (Fla. 1948) (“The gist of a conversion has
been declared to be not the acquisition of the property of the wrongdoer, but
the wrongful deprivation of a person of property to the possession of which
he is entitled. A conversion consists of an act in derogation of the plaintiff’s
possessory rights, and any wrongful exercise or assumption of authority over
another's goods, depriving him of the possession, permanently or for an
indefinite time, is a conversion.”); Senfeld v. Bank of Nova Scotia Tr. Co.
(Cayman) Ltd.,
450 So. 2d 1157, 1161 (Fla. 3d DCA 1984) (“Where a person
having a right to possession of property makes demand for its return and the
property is not relinquished, a conversion has occurred. But while a demand
and refusal constitute evidence that a conversion has occurred, it is
unnecessary to prove a demand and refusal where the conversion can be
otherwise shown.”).
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