Florida Corporation Sole Statute

The Florida Supreme Court has recognized the corporation sole under the common law. See Reid v. Barry, 112 So. 846, 887 (Fla. 1927); Willard v. Barry, 152 So. 411, 413 (Fla. 1933).  In Reid, the Florida Supreme Court, after acknowledging that Florida had adopted by statute the common and statute laws of England so far as the same were not inconsistent with the federal or state constitution or statutes, observed that the "common-law corporation sole is, under our statute adopting the common law, the law in Florida to-day, seldom as it may be called into operation, there can be no doubt . . . ."  See Reid, 112 So. at 997.  See also Terrett v. Taylor, 13 U.S. (9 Cranch) 43 (1815) and Ponce v. Roman Catholic Apostolic Church, 210 U.S. 296 (1908).