IN RE FLORIDA APPELLATE RULES

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• Wagner v. Bieley, 263 So. 2d 1 (Fla. 1972)
  …y final judgment is by direct appeal as provided by the statutes and court rules governing appeals from a final judgment in law actions . . . . ” Respondent argues that the decision of this Court in Floyd v. State ex rel. La Vigne Electric Company, 139 So. 2d 873 (Fla.1962) dictates a different result. However, we think the rationale of Ployd is inapplicable to the present situation. There, we held that a trial judge retains the power, after judgment, to sua sponte correct errors in his own judgment; we did…
• The Kippy Corp. v. Sherwood Colburn, 177 So. 2d 193 (Fla. 1965)
  …issufe was whether the goal of an early and final end to litigation was to be preserved to the degree provided by rule or statute, or sacrificed entirely in favor of justice free from error. The same issue was at stake in Floyd v. State, Fla. 1962, 139 So. 2d 873. In the Floyd case a majority of this Court held that a trial judge had the authority to vacate summary judgments previously entered by him, despite the fact that there was no provision of rule or statute giving him the power to do so. In reaching…
• Shelby Mut. Ins. Co. OF Shelby v. Tillman Pearson, 236 So. 2d 1 (Fla. 1970)
  …l level to correct what he considers to be mistake or invalidity of form or substance in his judgment or decree prior to expiration of the time for taking an appeal or before one is in fact taken. Floyd v. State ex rel. La Vigne Electric Co. (Fla.), 139 So. 2d 873. It is well known that courts have long followed this practice. This was so at common law and I do not find it has been modified by modern practice rules. This practice is so historically fundamental and jurisdictional it should not be reasoned awa…

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