Florida District Courts of Appeal, 1996

Yusem v. Butler

Florida District Courts of Appeal · Decided December 18, 1996 · Glickstein, Gunther, Warner

683 So. 2d 1170; 1996 Fla. App. LEXIS 13252; 1996 WL 724274 (Southern Reporter, Second Series)

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Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

We reverse the trial court’s order which denied appellants’ motion to vacate the default entered against them.

Appellants’ attorney, Richard H. Perlman, abandoned his clients without notice and vacated his Florida office. Accordingly, service of an amended complaint by appellees upon Perlman at the lawyer’s vacated Florida office and at some California address could not be considered notice to his abandoned clients, whose failure to respond constituted excusable neglect.

There is no issue of appellants’ diligence in seeking to have the default vacated, appellees having stipulated to same.

GUNTHER, C.J., and GLICKSTEIN and WARNER, JJ., concur.

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