Florida/Georgia Personal Injury & Workers Compensation

...e a third person of Shuttie's retained title/consignment arrangement. The plaintiff was not without adequate means to have afforded ample protection to his creations, by simultaneously providing similar warning or notice to third persons. Fla. Stat. 686.502 expressly so provides: `686.502 Consignment relationship; notice; proceeds of sales held in trust; contract requirements....

...Nor did the plaintiff comply with the mandatory "contract [consignment] Provisions" of Fla. Stat. 686.503. Standing alone, failure of compliance with F.S. 686.503 might not necessarily prove fatal to his cause. This is because had the mandatory public notice provisions of Fla. Stat. 686.502 been substantially complied with, no third person might then rely upon contrary ownership allegations of the consignor's agent....

...ithstanding any provision of the U.C.C.' Fla. Stat. 686.503(5). Such reliance is misplaced. Having either failed or overlooked compliance with sub-sections (1)-(4) of that Statute (Fla. Stat. 686.503) as well as the notice requirements of Fla. Stat. 686.502(2), the plaintiff is estopped to selectively rely upon only those portions of the controlling statutes which operate favorably while wholly disregarding those parts which may have contributed to his dilemna....

...work of art is being sold subject to a contract of consignment, or such consignee shall post a clear and conspicuous sign in the consignee's place of business giving notice that some works of art are being sold subject to a contract of consignment." § 686.502(2), Fla....