Ponsoldt v. Cadle Co.

Florida District Courts of Appeal
Ponsoldt v. Cadle Co., 829 So. 2d 937 (2002)
2002 Fla. App. LEXIS 14595; 2002 WL 31255563
Gross, Taylor

Ponsoldt v. Cadle Co.

Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM.

William and Mariane Ponsoldt seek review of an order that denied their motion to vacate a final judgment.

*938In 1991, a bank sued Pegasus Ranch, Inc. and the Ponsoldts to foreclose a mortgage. The Ranch filed a motion to dismiss without raising an objection to personal jurisdiction. Later the Ranch and the Ponsoldts moved for a protective order. In that motion, the Ponsoldts appeared “without waiving rights exercised in their Motion to Dismiss.” The trial court concluded that the Ponsoldts “adopted a motion to dismiss filed by the Corporate Defendant without reserving the right to raise an issue of in personam jurisdiction.” We find no error in the trial court’s conclusion that the Ponsoldts adopted the motion to dismiss, which constituted a waiver of the lack of personal jurisdiction. See Fiocchi v. Trainello, 566 So.2d 904, 904 (Fla. 4th DCA 1990); Zimmerman v. Weinberg, 557 So.2d 193, 194 (Fla. 4th DCA 1990).

AFFIRMED.

GROSS, TAYLOR and MAY, JJ., concur.

Reference

Full Case Name
William R. PONSOLDT and Mariane Ponsoldt v. The CADLE COMPANY, as Assignee of First Union National Bank of Florida, from the FDIC, as receiver for Southeast Bank, N.A. and Pegasus Ranch, Inc.
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Status
Published