IN RE ESTATE OF GEORGE H. WARTMAN, JR. VIRGINIA WARTMAN, APPELLANT,
v.
MARGARET MASON WARTMAN, AS EXECUTRIX OF THE ESTATE OF GEORGE H. WARTMAN, JR., APPELLEE

Fla. | 1960-06-24
THOMAS, C. J., and HOBSON, DREW, THORNAL and O’CONNELL, JJ., concur.
121 So. 2d 660 Florida Supreme Court (1960) Positive Treatment
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Synopsis

The Florida Supreme Court accepted an appeal from the District Court of Appeal, Third District, regarding a certified question of great public interest involving jurisdiction of the District Courts of Appeal. The Court converted the appeal into a petition for certiorari and established briefing procedures for resolution of the case.


Holding

The Court ordered that the appeal be regarded as a petition for certiorari because the District Court had properly certified the case under the constitutional provision for review of questions of great public interest. The Court established briefing schedules and directed that the original record from the District Court be filed with the Supreme Court.


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“because the decision involves an important new point of law relating to jurisdiction of the District Courts of Appeal”

The District Court's basis for certifying the case as involving a question of great public interest

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Facts & Procedural History

Virginia Wartman appealed a decision of the District Court of Appeal of the Third District rendered on March 23, 1960. Prior to the filing of the noti…

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Opinion of the Court
PER CURIAM.

PER CURIAM.

An appeal has been taken to this Court -to review the decision of the District Court of Appeal of the Third District of March 23, 1960, in the captioned cause. 118 So.2d 838. Prior to the date the notice of appeal was filed in this Court, the District Court filed in the cause its certificate that such “decision * * * ‘passes upon a question * * * of great public interest,’ because the decision involves an important new point of law relating to jurisdiction of the District Courts of Appeal.”1 A certified copy of such certificate has been filed here.

A motion has now been made by appellant that the appeal be regarded as a petition for certiorari and that an appropriate order be entered in accordance with Florida Appellate Rules.2 It is, therefore,

Ordered that, because said cause was certified to this Court in the manner provided by the Constitution, the appeal taken in said cause within sixty days from the rendition of said decision shall be considered as a petition for certiorari.3 It is further

Ordered that the original record in said cause in the District Court of Appeal, Third District, be filed forthwith in this Court by the Clerk of said District Court. It is further

Ordered that the attorneys for the petitioner, Virginia Wartman, shall file in this Court and serve a copy of her brief-on respondent or her attorneys on or before thirty days from the date this order is filed in the Clerk’s office. Respondent’s brief shall be filed and served within thirty days thereafter and petitioner shall have ten days after the service of respondent’s brief to *661reply thereto. When the record and all briefs have been filed, the Clerk of this Court shall note this case for argument on the calendar and advise the respective parties thereof.

THOMAS, C. J., and HOBSON, DREW, THORNAL and O’CONNELL, JJ., concur.


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