ZELLA CULPEPPER, APPELLANT,
v.
J. IVOR CULPEPPER, APPELLEE
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Zella Culpepper appealed a circuit court order allowing her husband to file an amended bill of complaint in a divorce proceeding. She filed a petition in the Florida Supreme Court seeking to hold him in contempt for failing to pay temporary alimony and solicitor's fees, but the Supreme Court lacked jurisdiction because those payment orders were separate from the appealed order and remained under the circuit court's exclusive jurisdiction.
The Supreme Court lacked jurisdiction to issue the contempt rule because the orders requiring payment of temporary alimony and solicitor's fees were separate from the appealed order. Although a supersedeas was perfected in the appeal, it did not affect other orders of the court, and the circuit court retained exclusive jurisdiction over the payment orders.
“although supersedeas was perfected in the appeal from the order allowing the filing of an amended hill of complaint, that such supersedeas does not affect any other order of the court in the said cause”
Establishes that supersedeas is limited to the specific order appealed and does not extend to other separate orders issued the same day
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This cause coming on upon petition for rule against the appellee to show cause why he should not be held in contempt for his failure to comply with that certain order which it is alleged by said petition was made by the Honorable Mallory F. Horne, Judge of the Third Judicial Circuit of Florida in and for Taylor County, on the 29th day of May, 1931, wherein and whereby the said appellee was required to pay to the defendant in the court below as temporary alimpny the sum of $15.00 on June 1st and the sum of $15.00 on June 10th, 1931, and thereafter until further order of the court to pay the defendant the sum of $30.00 or on before the 1st day of each and every month as temporary alimony, and wherein it was further ordered that the appellee, complainant in the court below, pay the further sum of $75.00 as temporary solicitor’s fees for defendant’s solicitors in installments of $25:00 each on or before the 15th day of July, August and September, 1931.
It appearing to the Court that a transcript of the record in the case of Zella Culpepper, Appellant, v. J. Ivor Culpepper, Appellee, was filed in this Court on August 11th, 1931, in an appeal, notice whereof was entered on the 10th day of June, 1931, wherein and whereby the defendant took her appeal from the order and decree of the Circuit Court made on the 29th day of May, 1931, whereby the complainant was allowed to file an amended bill of complaint; and it further appearing from that certain order *390from which appeal was taken that it did not embrace or contain any requirement regarding the payment of temporary alimony and solicitor’s fees, but that said orders Were two separate and distinct orders.
It, therefore, appears that although supersedeas was perfected in the appeal from the order allowing the filing of an amended hill of complaint, that such supersedeas does not affect any other order of the court in the said cause. The appeal from the order allowing the filing of an amended bill of complaint does not bring with it for review by this Court the order requiring the payment of temporary alimony and solicitor’s fees in which matter the Circuit Court retained and has exclusive jurisdiction.
Therefore, inasmuch as this Court has not acquired jurisdiction of the order of the Circuit Court requiring the payment of temporary alimony and solicitor’s fees, this Court is without jurisdiction to issue the Rule applied for. The petition for Rule is denied, with permission to the applicant to apply to the Judge of the Circuit Court retaining jurisdiction of said cause for such Rule. It is so ordered.
Buford, C.J., and Whitfield, Terrell and Davis, J.J., concur.