ROBERT T. WATT, APPELLANT,
v.
BILL BRANCH CHEVROLET, INC., APPELLEE

Fla. 2d DCA | 1974-03-13
No. 73-1083
BOARDMAN and GRIMES, JJ., concur.
292 So. 2d 56 Florida District Court of Appeal, Second District (1974) Positive Treatment
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Opinion of the Court
MANN, Chief Judge.

MANN, Chief Judge.

We granted a motion to dismiss an appeal improvidently taken from an order of the Circuit Court dismissing a counterclaim within the Circuit Court’s jurisdiction but brought in an action originally filed in the County Court for a sum lower than the Circuit Court’s jurisdiction. We are now asked to reconsider our action because the appellant fears that his right to appeal will be lost. We decline to do so. His right of appeal is preserved in any case by the Florida Constitution, Article V, §§ 3, 4, 5, F.S.A. The appellant states that confusion exists now because the Circuit Court has transferred the cause back to the County Court, leaving an appeal to be taken to the Circuit Court eventually which would submit the question which he brought here to the very court which decided it. Having once entertained jurisdiction on a good faith claim which causes the action to be transferred to the Circuit Court, that court should have retained jurisdiction. National Juice Corporation v. Gilligan, Fla. 1953, 63 So. 2d 914; Rule 1.170(j) Fla.R.Civ.R, 30 F.S.A. Our action is without prejudice to further proceedings in the light of this opinion.

The appeal will stand dismissed and the petition for rehearing is denied.

BOARDMAN and GRIMES, JJ., concur.

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