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Gulf Fertilizer Co. v. Hutchinson

Supreme Court of Florida, Division A
Jun 30, 1926
109 So. 803 (Fla. 1926)

Opinion

Opinion Filed June 30, 1926. Petition for rehearing denied July 20, 1926.

An Appeal from the Circuit Court for Polk County; H. C. Petteway, Judge.

Hampton, Bull Pencke, and L. J. Clyatt, for Appellant;

McKillop Hamilton, for Appellee.


On motion to dismiss this appeal, it appears that the final decree appealed from was rendered on December 5, 1924; that subsequently, on February 10, 1925, the complainant in the court below, Marie Arneson, died, and the cause was revived against her executor on December 22, 1925. This appeal was entered on January 9, 1926, more than a year after the rendition and entering of the final decree appealed from. Section 3168 of the Rev. Gen. Stats. which limits the time within which appeals in chancery must be taken to six months after the entry of the order or decree appealed from, contains no saving clause, by reason of the death of a party. The limitation began to run during the life of Marie Arneson, and on her death the appellant had the right to revive the cause against her personal representative so as to give it the right to appeal therefrom, and this could have been done within the time limited. This was not done, however, and it is clear that the motion to dismiss will have to be granted. See Roach v. Goldman, 50 Fla. 601, 39 So. 16.

Appeal dismissed.

WHITFIELD, ELLIS, TERRELL AND STRUM, J. J., concur.


Summaries of

Gulf Fertilizer Co. v. Hutchinson

Supreme Court of Florida, Division A
Jun 30, 1926
109 So. 803 (Fla. 1926)
Case details for

Gulf Fertilizer Co. v. Hutchinson

Case Details

Full title:GULF FERTILIZER COMPANY, A CORPORATION, Appellant, v. W. F. HUTCHINSON…

Court:Supreme Court of Florida, Division A

Date published: Jun 30, 1926

Citations

109 So. 803 (Fla. 1926)
109 So. 803

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