David BRAUN d/b/a Marti International Corporation, Appellant,
v.
INTERCONTINENTAL BANK, Appellee.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
Ferdie & Gouz and Jeffrey Solomon and Ainslee Ferdie, Coral Gables, for appellants.
Salley, Barns, Pajon, Guttman & Del Valle and Deborah S. Chames, Miami, for appellee.
Before HUBBART, DANIEL S. PEARSON and FERGUSON, JJ.
FERGUSON, Judge.
This appeal is from a trial court order assessing damages in the form of attorney's fees under an injunction bond pursuant to Section 60.07, Florida Statutes (1983). Appellant's main contention is that since the injunction was entered by order of the appellate court in the form of a stay, only the appellate court could have decided, as a basis for awarding damages, that it issued improperly.
Appellant commenced this action against appellee-Bank and two co-defendants seeking rescission and injunction of an irrevocable *999 letter of credit and contract for the sale of plumbing materials. The trial court entered an order denying a temporary injunction of the letter of credit. That order was appealed. In connection with the appeal, appellant requested a stay which we granted upon the condition that appellant post an injunction bond in the circuit court to cover damages, inclusive of attorney's fees, in the event an injunction was determined inappropriate. After a full hearing, we affirmed without opinion the trial court's denial of the temporary injunction.
By affirming the order below, we implicitly approved the trial court's finding that appellant was not entitled to a temporary injunction. A review of the record of the prior appeal in this case, which is permissible, see Nichols v. Tarsches,
Appellant correctly maintains, however, that it was error to grant attorney's fees for services rendered in reviewing and responding to the motion for stay filed in this court. Attorney's fees awarded as damages for the wrongful issuance of an injunction must be restricted to services rendered in undoing a wrongful injunction. Aviation Investments, Inc. v. Johanson,
Affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded.
NOTES
Notes
[1] Damages in an action on an injunction bond include attorney's fees. United Bonding Insurance Co. v. Presidential Insurance Co.,
