DAVIE, FL — The Town of Davie has filed a civil lawsuit against a South Florida Kubota equipment dealer, alleging the company was paid to repair a town-owned tractor but never finished the job after more than two years, according to a complaint filed in Broward County Circuit Court.
The suit, Town of Davie v. Florida Coast Equipment, LLC, was filed July 13, 2026, in the Circuit Court of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit in and for Broward County. Court records show the case carries the number CACE-26-011301 and is assigned to Division 25. The town is represented by Lydecker LLP, a law firm on Glades Road in Boca Raton, with attorneys Eric L. McAliley and Jade A. Manning listed as counsel.
Florida Coast Equipment operates as an agricultural and construction equipment retailer and servicer and keeps an office in Broward County, according to the complaint. The company has a location on Southwest 64th Avenue in Davie and lists a second office in West Palm Beach.
The lawsuit alleges the town hired the company to repair a Kubota tractor and delivered the unit to its garage on or about July 24, 2023. After months of what the complaint describes as poor communication, the company submitted a repair estimate of $44,570.42 on or about May 17, 2024, and the town approved and paid it, the filing says.
The complaint lays out a repeated cycle of repairs that the town claims never resolved the problem. On June 24, 2024, the company advised the tractor had been repaired, but the town alleges it found that the unit's blades engaged automatically when the machine was turned on, which the complaint describes as a safety hazard. The town says it returned the tractor on August 1, 2024, and that the company later reported the unit fixed on May 1, 2025, though the town alleges the malfunction persisted.
The company again represented the tractor as repaired on July 16, 2025, and the town says the blade issue appeared resolved at that point, according to the complaint. But in September 2025, the lawsuit alleges, town operators identified problems with the hydraulic arm and transmission after the town had already paid to have the transmission rebuilt and reprogrammed. The town says it returned the unit again on or about September 11, 2025, and that the tractor still has not been adequately repaired.
In total, the complaint claims the town paid the company more than $55,000 for repairs it says were never completed, and that it lost roughly two years of use of the tractor.
The lawsuit brings three claims: breach of contract, breach of implied warranty, and negligent misrepresentation. In plain terms, the town alleges the company did not deliver the repairs it agreed to and was paid for, that the work fell short of a warranty that repairs would be done in a workmanlike manner, and that the town relied on the company's representations that it could fix the tractor. The town is seeking monetary damages exceeding the court's $50,000 jurisdictional threshold, plus interest and costs, and has demanded a trial by jury.
The complaint reviewed by Boca Post does not include a response from Florida Coast Equipment. The allegations are claims made in a court filing and have not been proven in court.
The case remains in its early stages. Boca Post reviewed the complaint, Town of Davie v. Florida Coast Equipment, LLC, Case No. CACE-26-011301, filed July 13, 2026, in Broward County Circuit Court.
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