GAY GAINER AND H. A. GAINER, HER HUSBAND,

v.

TOWN OF ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, A FLORIDA MUNICIPAL CORPORATION

Citator

Cited By (13 total)

• Mouzon v. Mouzon, 458 So. 2d 381 (Fla. 5th DCA 1984)
  …defendant, if it be reasonably possible, may be accorded notice of the suit. [The] full test of this principle is whether the complainant reasonably employed knowledge at his command in making the appropriate effort spoken of. See, McGee v. McGee, 156 Fla. 346, 22 So. 2d 788 (1945); Huguenor v. Huguenor, 420 So. 2d 344 (Fla. 5th DCA 1982); Mayo v. Mayo, 344 So. 2d 933 (Fla. 2d DCA 1977). In Schroeder v. Schroeder, 430 So. 2d 604 (Fla. 4th DCA 1983), the court suggested that personal service under section…
• Canzoniero v. Canzoniero, 305 So. 2d 801 (Fla. 4th DCA 1975)
  …hereby, the wife received actual notice; he urges these events cured the conceded deficiency in the statutory effort. We disagree. The constructive service statutes must be strictly construed in order to give the court jurisdiction. McGee v. McGee, 156 Fla. 346, 22 So. 2d 788 (1945); Gribbel v. Henderson, 151 Fla. 712, 10 So. 2d 734 (1942), aff’d 153 Fla. 397, 14 So. 2d 809 (1943); McDaniel v. McElvy, 91 Fla. 770, 108 So. 820 (1926); Crews v. Rohlfing, 285 So. 2d 433 (3d D.C.A.Fla.1973); Naples Park-Vander…
• Callaghan v. Blanche D. Callaghan, 337 So. 2d 986 (Fla. 4th DCA 1976)
  …pter 49. Minick v. Minick, 111 Fla. 469, 149 So. 483 (1933); Wilmott v. Wilmott, 119 So. 2d 54 (1st DCA Fla.App.1960). The constructive service statute is strictly construed against a plaintiff who seeks service of process under it. McGee v. McGee, 156 Fla. 346, 22 So. 2d 788 (1945); Canzoniera, v. Canzoniera, 305 So. 2d 801 (4th DCA Fla.App.1975); Wilmott v. Wilmott, supra. Service of process in this cause was never perfected upon the respondent, consequently the trial court never acquired jurisdiction ov…