STATE OF FLORIDA, PETITIONER,

v.

FRED WILLIE STURGIS, RESPONDENT

Citator

Cited By

• Clemons v. Flagler Hosp., Inc., 385 So. 2d 1134 (Fla. 5th DCA 1980)
  …); Click v. Pardoll, 359 So. 2d 537 (Fla. 3d DCA 1978), cert. denied, 367 So. 2d 1122 (Fla.1979); Garrido v. Markus, Winter & Spitale Law Firm, 358 So. 2d 577 (Fla. 3d DCA 1978) and Galuppi v. Viele, 232 So. 2d 408 (Fla. 4th DCA 1970), cert. denied, 238 So. 2d 109 (Fla.1970), hold only that a new party may not be added after the statute of limitations has already expired as to that defendant. They are totally inapplicable to this situation.…
• Johnson v. Taylor Rental Ctr., Inc., 458 So. 2d 845 (Fla. 2d DCA 1984)
  …rwater Construction Co., 89 So. 2d 662 (Fla.1956); Hohl v. Croom Motrocross, Inc., 358 So. 2d 241 (Fla. 2d DCA 1978); B & H Sales, Inc. v. Fusco Corp., 342 So. 2d 105 (Fla. 2d DCA 1977); Galuppi v. Viele, 232 So. 2d 408 (Fla. 4th DCA), cert. denied, 238 So. 2d 109 (Fla.1970); Argenbright v. J.M. Fields Co., 196 So. 2d 190 (Fla. 3d DCA), cert denied, 201 So. 2d 895 (Fla.1967). The recurrent theme of these cases is that the amendment should be permitted to relate back where it merely changes the capacity in whi…
• Palm Beach Cnty. v. Savage Constr. Corp., 627 So. 2d 1332 (Fla. 4th DCA 1993)
  …a game of chess in which the technique of the maneuver captures the prize. Id. at 664. Courts have generally applied the relation-back doctrine when a misnomer occurs. See, e.g., Galuppi v. Viele, 232 So. 2d 408, 410 (Fla. 4th DCA), cert. denied, 238 So. 2d 109 (Fla.1970); Louis v. South Broward Hosp. Dist, 353 So. 2d 562, 563 (Fla. 4th DCA 1977), dismissed, 359 So. 2d 1217 (Fla.1978); St. John’s Hosp. and Health Ctr. v. Toomey, 610 So. 2d 62 (Fla. 3d DCA 1992) (Court held that where text of the amended co…

Authorities Cited

• Sturgis v. State, 233 So. 2d 166 (Fla. 4th DCA 1970)