BEACHLAND DEVELOPMENT CO.
v.
AXEL PETERSON

Fla. | 1933-10-09
Davis, C. J., and Whitfield, Ellis, Terrell, Brown and Buford, J. J., concur., Davis, C. J., and AYhitfield, Ellis, Terrell, Brown and Buford, J. J., concur.
111 Fla. 349 Florida Supreme Court (1933) Positive Treatment
Also reported at: 150 So. 225 · 149 So. 423
Cited by 5 cases

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Synopsis

The Florida Supreme Court dismissed an appeal for lack of proper jurisdictional showing in the transcript, but upon reconsideration after briefing on the merits, denied the motion to dismiss and affirmed the lower court's order striking certain pleadings, finding no reversible error in the chancery court's decision.


Holding

The motion to dismiss the appeal was initially granted due to defective jurisdictional showing, but upon reconsideration after full briefing, the court denied the motion to dismiss and affirmed the lower court's order, finding no reversible error committed by the chancellor.


Key Quotes

“Where the transcript on an equity appeal from an interlocutory order does not contain copied in full a motion which formed the sole basis for the making of the interlocutory order appealed from, this Court must presume that some ground appearing in the motion, warranted the Chancellor in making the order, and that the order is without substantial error.”

Establishes the presumption of validity when the complete motion is not in the transcript on appeal

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Facts & Procedural History

Beachland Development Co. appealed from a chancery court order striking certain pleadings. The appellee moved to dismiss the appeal, arguing the trans…

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Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam. Per Curiam.'

Per Curiam.

The appellee’s motion to dismiss the appeal in this case should be granted, because the transcript does not affirmatively show in a proper form, that the notice of appeal was duly, recorded in the chancery order book, so as to give this Court jurisdiction over the person of the appellee. Neither has appellant caused to clearly appear the error complained of in the court’s order appealed from, which was an order striking certain pleadings.

Where the transcript on an equity appeal from an interlocutory order does not contain copied in full a motion which formed the sole basis for the making of the interlocutory order appealed from, this Court must presume that some ground appearing in the motion, warranted the Chancellor in making the order, and that the order is without substantial error.

Appeal dismissed on appellee’s motion.

Davis, C. J., and Whitfield, Ellis, Terrell, Brown and Buford, J. J., concur.

Per Curiam.'

Upon a motion to dismiss this appeal as frivolous, briefs on the merits have been filed by both parties.

This Court has reached the conclusion that this case should be disposed of on the authority of Grand Lodge, K. P. of North America, etc., v. Stroud, 107 Fla. 152, 144 *351Sou. Rep. 324, wherein this Court held in substance that where, in order to determine a motion to dismiss an appeal as frivolous, filed under Section 4639, C. G. L., 2920 R. G. S., the Court had been required to. thoroughly examine the transcript brought up on appeal, and had become satisfied ■from such examination that no reversible error had been committed by the court below, the motion to dismiss the appeal might be denied and the judgment or decree appealed from affirmed, without retaining the case on the docket for reconsideration and reinvestigation of the same propositions in the future.

This is an approved procedure when the motion to dismiss the appeal as frivolous has come up for consideration after all the briefs have been filed on the merits, where-from the Court has been able to fully perceive that no error has been committed, although the appeal may be not so devoid' of probable merit as to warrant the granting of the motion calling for the severe remedy of dismissal of the appeal as frivolous. See Meier v. Johnson, 110 Fla. 374, 149 Sou. Rep. 185.

In this case the answer purporting to set up usury failed to contain sufficient allegations to bring the facts stated within the purview of the statute. The bill of complaint sufficiently showed the residence of the complainant to withstand the attack made on it, assuming that a special demurrer was permissible in view of the 1931 Chancery Act.

Motion to dismiss appeal denied and orders affirmed.

Davis, C. J., and AYhitfield, Ellis, Terrell, Brown and Buford, J. J., concur.


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  • Beachland Dev. Co. v. Axel Peterson, 123 Fla. 145 (Fla. 1936)
    …Terrell, J. This case has appeared here on four previous occasions: Beachland Development Co. v. Peterson, 107 Fla. 658, 145 So. 837; Beachland Development Co. v. Peterson, 111 Fla. 349, 149 So. 423; 150 So. 225; and Beachland Development Co. v. Peterson, 117 Fla. 992, 159 So. 923. The last appeal was from a final decree in a mortgage foreclosure entered July 9, 1934, and was dismissed on motion of appellee for failure of appellant to file tra…

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