CITY OF JACKSONVILLE, A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR,
v.
ELIZABETH HOLMES AND JOHN M. HOLMES, HER HUSBAND, DEFENDANTS IN ERROR
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The Florida Supreme Court conditionally affirmed a judgment, allowing it to stand if the plaintiff accepted a reduced amount, otherwise ordering a new trial.
The judgment will be allowed to stand for $750.00 if the plaintiff files a remittitur of $500.00; otherwise, the judgment will be reversed and the case remanded for a new trial.
“if the plaintiff in the court below will enter a remittitur of $500.00 within fifteen days from the filing of the mandate in the court below, as of the date of the judgment, the remainder of the judgment, to-wit, in the sum of $750.00 will be allowed to stand as of the date thereof.”
The condition under which the judgment would be allowed to stand.
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— This cause having heretofore been submitted to the Court upon the transcript of the record of the judgment herein, and briefs and argument of counsel for the respective parties, and the record having been seen, and inspected, and the court being now advised of its judgment to be given in the premises; it is considered, ordered and adjudged by the Court that if the plaintiff in the court below will enter a remittitur of $500.00 within fifteen days from the filing of the mandate in the court below, as of the date of the judgment, the remainder of the judgment, to-wit, in the sum of $750.00 will be allowed to stand as of the date thereof. Otherwise the judgment will be reversed and the cause remanded for a new trial.
Terrell, C. J., and Whitpield, Ellis, Brown and Bupord, J. J., concur.
Strum, J., did not participate.